Second in terms of time, people in high-context cultures are considered to have what is called a polychronic attitude toward time.
第二,在时间方面,一般认为高语境文化的人有一种多元时间态度。
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Another example of a low-context culture is people's attitude towards time. In terms of time, I said before there was a polychronic sense of time in a high-context culture.
Second, in terms of time, people in high-context cultures are considered to have what is called a polychronic attitude toward time. Here " poly" means multiple and " chronic" means time.
Chronemics is the study of the role of time in communication. It is one of several subcategories of the study of nonverbal communication. Other prominent subcategories include haptics (touch), kinesics (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and proxemics (the use of space).