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Hall's cultural factors
Edward T. Hall was an anthropologist who made early discoveries of key cultural factors. In particular he is known for his high and low context cultural factors. In a high-context culture, there are many contextual elements that help people to understand the rules. As a result, much is taken for granted.
Anthropologist Edward T. Hall received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1942 and did fieldwork on intercultural relations with the Navajo, Hopi, Spanish-Americans, and the Trukese. During the crucial years of the foreign aid program in the 1950s he was Director of the State Department’s Point IV Training Program. From 1959 to 1963 he directed a communications research project at the Washington School of Psychiatry where he studied nonverbal communication. He taught at the University of Denver, Bennington College, the Harvard Business School, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University.
Edward T. Hall
High context culture and the contrasting " low context culture " are terms presented by the anthropologist Edward T. Hall in his 1976 book Beyond Culture . It refers to a culture's tendency to use high context messages over low context messages in routine communication. This choice of communication styles translates into a culture that will cater to in-groups, an in-group being a group that has similar experiences and expectations, from which inferences are drawn. In a high context culture, many things are left unsaid, letting the culture explain. Words and word choice become very important in higher context communication, since a few words can communicate a complex message very effectively to an in-group (but less effectively outside that group), while in a lower context culture, the communicator needs to be much more explicit and the value of a single word is less important.
High context culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward T. Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United States Army , University of Denver , Bennington College , Harvard Business School , Illinois Institute of Technology , Northwestern University , United States Department of State Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr. (May 16, 1914 – July 20, 2009) was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher.
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