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low-context communication  

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  • Anthropologist Edward T. Hall introduced the construct of low-context communication to describe the degree to which people rely on contextual factors rather than the explicit and transmitted part of the message to derive meaning in communication. In low-context (LC) communication, people attend to the explicit, communicated speech to gather information. [Source: Encyclopedia of Counseling; Low-Context Communication]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/low-context_communication

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