Study of Differences in Nonverbal Communication between Chinese and English 中英国家非语言交际行为的差异-研究.doc

Study of Differences in Nonverbal Communication between Chinese and English中英国家非语言交际行为的差异研究 Abstract: In daily communication, people usually pay attention to verbal communication, while neglecting the facts that communication also depends on nonverbal codes, and that communication is the combination of verbal and nonverbal system. Nonverbal cues are one of the main causes of misunderstanding and culture conflict between people from different cultures. With increasingly frequent international communication, the study of the cultural differences between Chinese and English is of great significance. This paper explores the relationship between nonverbal communication and culture and gives a contrastive study of the cultural differences of nonverbal communication between Chinese and English in terms of body language, space language, time language and paralanguage. The paper aims at arousing readers’ awareness of the importance of nonverbal communication and their interests in differences between Chinese and English nonverbal communication. Therefore, readers may improve intercultural communicative competence. Key words: nonverbal; cultural difference; communication; cross-culture 摘要： 在日常交际中，人们往往只注重语言交际，而忽略了交际还需要依靠非语言符号，以及交际是语言交际和非语言交际相结合的事实。非语言因素是引起不同文化人交流误解，文化冲突的重要原因之一。随着国际交流的日益频繁，对中国和说英语国家的文化差异研究具有举足轻重的意义。本文从文化的视角探讨了非语言交际和文化的关系, 按照肢体语言、空间语言、时间语言和副语言的顺序对中英国家非语言交际的差异进行了对比研究。本文的目的是为了激发人们对非语言交际重要性的认识的兴趣和对中英国家非语言交际差异的兴趣，从而提高跨文化交际的能力。 关键词：非语言；文化差异；交际；跨文化 Contents I. Introduction……………………………………..…….……………..1 II. General Remarks of Nonverbal Communication……………………2 A. Verbal communication and nonverbal communication…………………...2 B. The definition of nonverbal communication ………………..…….…….. 3 C. Classifications of nonverbal communication……………………………..3 1. Kinesics……………………………………………..…………..4 2. Proxemics……………………………………….……4 3. Paralanguage……………………………………….…………4 4. Chronemics………………………………………..……………...5 D. The characteristic of nonverbal communication…………………………6 III. The Functions of