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To be fair, the article identifies Ireland and the American South to be high context regions. But yeah, there's a pretty strong overlap between "high context" a
by squiggleblaz 7y ago
To be fair, the article identifies Ireland and the American South to be high context regions. But yeah, there's a pretty strong overlap between "high context" and "Germanic speaking" in that article.
(Ireland is of course Celtic, but America and Australia aren't really "Germanic" in a non-linguistic sense.)
- wil421 7y agoWas English high or low around the 1700s/early 1800s? A lot of Southern mannerisms and formalities are based on English traditions around the time of the colonies. Especially the rural south.