The Influence of Culture on Information Overload

This chapter contains sections titled:

• Introduction

• Levels of Culture

• Cultural Patterns of Discourse Organization

• High Context Versus Low Context

• Internationalization Versus Localization

• The Effect of Professional Culture

• Japan and U.S. Discourse Structures

• Cultural Issues in Reader Versus Writer Responsibility

• Implications for Engineers and Technical Communicators and Their Corporations

• Conclusion

• References