in Intercultural Communication 跨文化交際中的身體語言

2024年3月15日發(作者：不脛而走)

The Body Language in Intercultural Communication

跨文化交際中的身體語言

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

語言是一種交流工具，但是起輔助作用的身勢語在人類交流中也起著不可忽視的作用。

在跨文化交際中它幫助人們傳情達意，突破語言障礙，促進交流。

21世紀， 隨著國際經濟文化交流的加深，由于語言，文化的差異而產生的障礙隨時

都可能存在，在跨文化交際中，消除障礙的最有效的方法就是了解身勢語的含義。 然而即

使我們對常用的身勢語有所了解，我們仍然面臨著一些困難，身勢語含義千變萬化，即使

同一身勢語在不同的文化背景都有不同的含義。錯誤地用身勢語不僅會使我們在跨文化交

際中失敗，而且會造成和外國朋友之間的沖突，所以怎樣正確地使用身勢語，怎樣理解身

勢語的差異都非常重要，該篇論文中作者在借鑒前人成果的基礎上分析了各種身勢語在不

同文化背景下的用法和功能。

關鍵詞

身勢語；跨文化交際；文化差異；

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