1. Low & High Context Communication Styles
LOW CONTEXT
• Explicit Verbal Messages
• Self Expression Valued
• Strive to Persuade Others to accept their Viewpoint
• Clear, Eloquent Speech & Fluency Admired

2. Low & High Context Communication Styles
• Less Reliance on Explicit Verbal Messages
• Emphasis on Contextual Cues (Time, Place, Relationship)
• Relational Harmony Valued & Maintained by Indirect Expression of Opinions
• Communicators abstain from saying “No” directly
• Communicators talk “around” the point
• Ambiguity & use of Silence Admired