高语境与低语境交际的文化渊源

文章对跨文化交际学科中的一对新概念：高语境文化与低语境文化进行了简单的介绍,探讨研究了这两种截然不同的交际的文化渊源,指出中国传统文化中的儒道佛三家文化,尤其是＂道＂乃是高语境文化的源头;古希腊的＂逻各斯＂及苏格拉底、柏拉图与亚里斯多德的逻辑理性与辩论术则是低语境文化的发源之处,并预言未来的趋势一定是高语境文化与低语境文化走向彼此融合。

A Study on Cultural Origins of High Context and Low Context

Based on a brief survey on high-context culture and low-context culture-the two comparatively-new concepts inintercultural communication,the paper explores their cultural origins.It is pointed out that the origin of the high-context culture is the Confucius culture,the Taoist culture as well as the Buddhist culture,and that the origin of the low-context culture is the Logosconcept in ancient Greece,the reasoning,logical thinking as well as the persuasion of Socrates,Plato and Aristotle.It is also predicted ...