'High-Context' communicative cultures heavily rely on contextual or implicit meanings(through gestures, body language, context) in the communication that needs to be inferred by the listeners which is direct in contrast to the low-context communication cultures where the information is verbally or explicitly stated as the people(communicators) lack knowledge.
As per the question, 'high-context' communication would be characterized as indirect or implicit as plenty of meaning or information is internalized that requires prior knowledge to infer the message suggested or implied. Therefore, they lay more emphasis on gestures instead of direct verbal communication of the message. Thus, <u>'high-context'</u> is the answer.
The English language belongs to the Germanic family of languages - but it has has a numerous influences of Latin and French - romance languages. But it is classified as a Germanic language.
