in Intercultural Communication 跨文化交际中的身体语言

2024年3月15日发(作者：不胫而走)

The Body Language in Intercultural Communication

跨文化交际中的身体语言

Abstract

As a communicative tool, language is very important in many situations.

However, body language also takes a complementary role to help people transfer

information to improve communication, which will be an indispensable power to

break up language obstacles in intercultural communication. In the 21st century,

as the economic and cultural exchanging of all countries becomes more and more

frequent, there appear more obstacles caud by the differences of language and

culture. In intercultural communication, one of the most uful ways to deal with

the obstacles is to master the meaning of body language. However, even if we

understand the meaning of some general body language, there are also some

difficulties to master. Becau even the same body language have great

differences in different couture background. Using body languages wrongly not

only makes you fail in interpersonal communications, which would cau conflict

in international communication. So what are the differences of the same body

language in different country? How to apply body language correctly? In this essay,

after borrowing and studying the experience of the forefathers, the author

analyzes the various usages and functions of body language in different culture

background.

Key Words

Body language; intercultural communication; cultural difference

摘 要

语言是一种交流工具，但是起辅助作用的身势语在人类交流中也起着不可忽视的作用。

在跨文化交际中它帮助人们传情达意，突破语言障碍，促进交流。

21世纪， 随着国际经济文化交流的加深，由于语言，文化的差异而产生的障碍随时

都可能存在，在跨文化交际中，消除障碍的最有效的方法就是了解身势语的含义。 然而即

使我们对常用的身势语有所了解，我们仍然面临着一些困难，身势语含义千变万化，即使

同一身势语在不同的文化背景都有不同的含义。错误地用身势语不仅会使我们在跨文化交

际中失败，而且会造成和外国朋友之间的冲突，所以怎样正确地使用身势语，怎样理解身

势语的差异都非常重要，该篇论文中作者在借鉴前人成果的基础上分析了各种身势语在不

同文化背景下的用法和功能。

关键词

身势语；跨文化交际；文化差异；

Introduction

In modern society, most countries in the world communicate with each other

frequently, at the same time, the people speaking different languages have

different cultural background, way of living, faith of religion, personal values and

so on, which take intervene to the communication of people coming from different