Abstract: According to previous narrative research, narrative communication is regarded as daily communication, so the timing and context of narrative communication are both neglected. Considering the practical reality of narrative communication, we may find that it has three important features such as diachrony , unidirectivity and contextual differences which result in low context of narrative communication. During the low contextual communication, the text is both code and ‘context’, the author is a weak information source, and the implied author may be the reader’s construct, or may contain the author’s cultural mirror image in it. The reader brings everything above together. Low context leads to various narrative communications.

Key words: narrative communication, diachrony, unidirectivity, contextual differences, low context