Anthropologist Edward T. Hall studied the variety of ways different cultures use language and divided cultures into two main groups on that basis. What are the groups called?
A) unsocial context cultures and social context cultures
B) favorable-context cultures and unfavorable-context cultures
C) deep context cultures and shallow context cultures
D) low-context cultures and high-context cultures

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Edward T. Hall categorized cultures into low-context and high-context based on how much communication in a society relies on implicit messages and nonverbal cues versus explicit verbal messages.