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A Critique of Hall's Contexting Model: A Meta-Analysis of Literature on Intercultural Business and Technical Communication
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In this article, a meta-analysis of 224 intercultural communication documents is presented, based on the model of low-context and high-context cultures, which is one of the dominant theoretical frameworks for interpreting interculture communication.Abstract:
Edward Hall's model of low-context and high-context cultures is one of the dominant theoretical frameworks for interpreting intercultural communication. This article reports a meta-analysis of 224 ...read more
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The Language of Graphic Advertising in The UK: Cultural Considerations
TL;DR: The authors explored the influence of cultural values on the design and communicative style of British graphic advertisements for food and beverages, particularly in relation to Hall's context dependence and Hofstede's individualism index.
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A Localization Theory: User Experience Research in the U.S. and Canada
TL;DR: Results indicate Canadian preferences to the sample document for layout, organization, language, and amounts of text compared to U.S. participants.
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Schemas, face and politeness
TL;DR: This paper found that social groups tend to have preferred ways of speaking for particular contexts (e.g., how do you do? would be highly valued at a formal occasion but it would not be a good way to greet a friend in the morning).
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Development of a Behavioral Scale toward People Who Fail at “Taking a Hint” and a Test of its Reliability and Validity
TL;DR: The authors developed a behavioral scale toward other people who fail at "taking a hint" and tested its reliability and validity with an internet survey with 419 university students (M=20.80 years, SD=1.85) and found that the scale had a six-factor structure: Jeer / Tease, Criticize, Follow Along, Ignore, Avoid, and gossip.
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Communication Across Cultures: Cultural differences in writing
Heather Bowe,Kylie Martin +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined some of the research based on contrastive discourse analysis (also known as contrastive rhetoric) in cross-linguistic discourse analysis, including Hinds (1980) on Japanese, Eggington (1987) on Korean, and some of Clyne's work on academic texts with specific reference to English and German.
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Culture′s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values
TL;DR: In his book Culture's Consequences, Geert Hofstede proposed four dimensions on which the differences among national cultures can be understood: Individualism, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance and Masculinity as mentioned in this paper.
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Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind
TL;DR: In this article, the differences in the way strategists and their followers think are discussed, and practical solutions for those in business to help solve conflict between different groups are proposed, with a focus on how to find common problems which demand cooperation for the solution of these problems.
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Culture′s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations
TL;DR: In this paper, values and culture data collection, treatment and validation power distance Uncertainty Avoidance Individualism and Collectivism Masculinity and Femininity Long versus Short-Term Orientation Cultures in Organizations Intercultural Encounters Using Culture Dimension Scores in Theory and Research
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