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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"high-context"”.
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Designing For A Japanese High-context Culture: Culture's Influence On The Technical Writer's Visual Rhetoric
… writers face when designing documents for high-context cultures, such as the Japanese. When developing documents intended to cross cultural gulfs, technical writers must take into consideration cultural expectations, preferences, and practices in document design and communication. …
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Advancing Verbal Communication Skills Through Transcript-Based Feedback : Designing an AI-Assisted Language Learning Application, “Stepping Stones, ” to Support ESL Students in Academic and Professional Contexts
… English as a Second Language (ESL) learners from high-context language backgrounds, such as Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, in online academic and professional settings. Cultural norms around indirectness, shared context, and cautious self-expression often influence how learners communicate in …
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"Using Communication Strategies to Design Food Marketing Strategies: The ""Pork Fat"" Rumor in Indonesia"
… itself or the rumored object), the culture (""high-context"" or ""low context"") from which subjects were drawn, subjects' perceived similarity to the experimenters who denied the rumor, and different content of messages used in the refutation strategies."
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Advertising and media literacy : young people and their understanding of the world of advertising in Australia and Thailand
… participants exhibited characteristics of low-context cultures and often used a direct style to demonstrate their knowledge of the media. Thai participants used characteristically elaborate and indirect styles, typical of high-context readings of the media.
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The Digital Language Divide: Accessibility and Usability of Icelandic Public Digital Services for Foreign-Born Residents
… emotional UX, intercultural communication, and high-context administrative culture to propose a conceptual model linking language accessibility to cognitive load, emotional strain, and perceived institutional fairness. The study concludes that improving accessibility requires coordinated efforts …
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Cultural Influences and Negotiation: Chinese Conflict Resolution Preferences and Negotiation Behavior
… harmony, collectivism, conformity, holism-contextualism, time, face, shame, reciprocity, high context, friendship, and Guanxi. The author suggests that traditional Chinese cultural values influence Chinese people to be less openly assertive and emotional in conflict situations, which …
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Agentic AI systems in professional domains: A probabilistic framework for role suitability and legal accountability
… strategy, preserving human roles in high-context domains while enabling targeted replacement in low-complexity workflows. To mitigate risk, the thesis formalizes the Agentic Accountability and Governance Framework, which includes enforceable safeguards such as capability disclosure, …
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First culture embedding in the language of childhood tales: a qualitative study on conventions and communication of C1-Korean vs. C1-American speakers
… individualistic vs. collectivistic, and (3) low context vs. high context (Hall, 1959, 1976; Lehman, Chi-yue, & Schaller, 2004; Shiraev & Levy, 2016). However, with technological advances and social expansion, cultural experiences have become globalized, thus not as isolated anymore but shared …
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Culture and crisis communication : the use of intercultural communication in public relations crisis management planning
… theoretical framework of power distance, high-context vs. low-context communications, and individualism vs. collectivism.</p> <p>Results revealed three main themes, including differences in PR between Japan and the United States, belief that culture should play a more substantial role in …
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Using the Theory of Reasoned Action and Planned Behavior to Create a Point-of-Use Water Treatment Behavior-Change Campaign Within the Safe Water System
… norms – including its collectivist culture and high-context communication style. Normative behaviors were recommended to be designed directly into the campaign structure through a woman’s group train-the-trainer program that utilized peer education, behavioral modeling, and motivational …
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A contextualized instructional design approach : integrating intercultural competence development into email computer training
… how, within the instructional design process, contextualized curriculum can be created that integrates intercultural competency and email proficiency. This thesis includes a draft of an instructional plan and course outline for an email computer class that focuses on developing intercultural …
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Characterising Performative Speech Modes via Analysis by Synthesis
… However, this speech domain is abstract and highly nuanced, making it highly difficult to characterise in the already complicated realm of expressive speech theories and research. This thesis attempts to explore perception of performative speech in terms of the Bio-informational Dimensions, …
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The Pragmatic Strategy of Main-Clause Omission in Japanese: Its Contrast with Hebrew, and Its Learnability
… Japanese is considered to be one of the most “high-context” languages in the world—i.e., a language where a lot of the information is internalized in the speaker, and very little is said explicitly, meaning a language that encourages omission in general; Hebrew, on the other hand, is considered …
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Examination of dispositions and practices in diversity: the impact of a teacher education course promoting culturally and responsive pedagogy
<p>Assimilation ideology guiding teachers and policy makers to mainstream immigrant children into the American schools has prevailed in spite of pluralists' efforts for reform schools to provide more opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse students. Research shows a need to change …
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Enhancing Software Security through Code Diversification Verification, Control-flow Restriction, and Automatic Compartmentalization
… runtime overhead of 2.57%. The vulnerabilities highlighted by exploits like Heartbleed capitalize on external inputs, underscoring the need for enhanced input-driven security measures. Therefore, this dissertation describes a method to improve upon the limitations of traditional …
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Food advertising contents influencing organic food purchase intention and actual purchase behaviour and the moderating role of gender: the case of Thailand
… behavior. The study's results can strengthen the context (Thailand) because it will provide valuable consumer data. The study's findings will be used to obtain some recommendations both at policy level, such as measures to promote knowledge about organic foods, and at industry level, such as …