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1、AContrastiveStudyofBodyLanguageBetweenChineseandEnglish-speakingCountries英汉身势语的对比研究[Abstract]Inhumancommunication,peopleusebodylanguagetocommunicate,aswellasverballanguage.BodylanguageisalsocalledKinesics.Itbelongstothescopeofnonverbalcommunication.Bod
2、ylanguageplaysanimportantroleincomplementing,accenting,symbolizingorsubstitutingutterancemeaning.Bodylanguage,likeverballanguage,isalsoapartofculture.Butindifferentculturesbodylanguagemeansthedifferentthings.Differentpeoplehavedifferentwaysofmakingnonv
3、erbalcommunication.UnderstandingthedifferentculturalimplicationofEnglishandChinesebodylanguagecanpromotepeople’scross-culturalcommunicationcompetence,reinforcetheheart-to-heartunderstandingandintheendwillbenefitthecommunicationbetweenEnglishandChinesep
4、eople.Thispapermainlyexpoundsthefeaturesandfunctionsofbodylanguageinpragmatics,presentsthemeaningsofbodylanguageindifferentculturesfromthepointofcultures,researchesbodylanguage’sculturaldifferencesbetweenEnglishandChinese,especiallythoseingesture,postu
5、re,facialexpression,eyecontactandphysicaldistance,anddiscussestheimportanceofknowingculturalmeanings.TheresearchofEnglishandChinesebodylanguageinnonverbalcommunicationishelpfulforpeopletodiminishoravoidmisunderstandingscausedbytheculturaldifferencesofb
6、odylanguage.[KeyWords]bodylanguage;English-speakingcountries;China;contrast[摘要]人们在进行交流的过程中，除了运用语言这种普遍的方式外，也经常运用身势语。身势语又称体态语，是人类交际中最常见的一种非语言交际手段。身势语对话语意义起着补充，强调，表情，象征或替代作用。身势语同语言一样，都是文化的一部分。在不同文化中，身势语的意义并不完全相同。各个民族有不同的非语言交际方式。了解英汉身势语的不同文化内涵，有助于英汉国家的人民之间
7、更好地交流，提高跨文化交际能力，增进感情与心态的理解，做到“入乡随俗”，传情达意。本文重点论述了身势语的语用特征，功能，并从文化角度对身势语在不同的文化背景中的含义作了介绍，探讨了中国和英语国家在手势，姿态，面部表情，眼神与体距等方面的文化差异，论述了了解文化含义在非语言交际中的重要性。对跨文化交际中的英汉体态语进行探讨，有助于人们减少或避免在跨文化交际中因体态语的文化差异而引起的误解。[关键词]身势语；英语国家；中国；对比1.IntroductionHumancommunicationconsis
8、tsofverbalcommunicationandnonverbalcommunication.Nonverbalcommunicationplaysaveryimportantroleinthewholecommunication.Someexpertssaymorethan60percentofcommunicationcomesfromnonverbalbehaviors,suchasfacialexpression,postureandsoon.Thesen
