The Application of Gestures in Interpersonal Communication
论文作者:佚名论文属性:短文 essay登出时间:2009-04-17编辑:黄丽樱点击率:16167
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关键词:Interpersonal communicatiogestureapplication人际交往手势应用
Abstract
Nowadays, globalization makes international communication closer and more vital day by day. And trans-cultural exchange is also increasing. Verbal communication is necessary in the exchange. At the same time, nonverbal communication also plays a very important role in it. As a special communicating tool in nonverbal communication, gestures plays its own vital role.
This paper aims to have a close look at the similarities and differences of the inner meaning of gestures according to cultural background in different countries. It provides us with details of gestures in daily life, social communication and expression of interior emotions. Through this paper, people may have a basic knowledge of gestures and then use them accurately in trans-cultural communication. Hence, misunderstanding caused by wrong interpretation of gestures can be avoided.
摘 要
当今世界,国际交流正日益频繁和紧密,跨文化交流也呈上升趋势。在跨文化交流中,言语交流必不可少。与此同时,非言语交际也扮演着非常重要的作用。而手势作为非言语交际中的一个特殊工具,其作用也不可小觑。
本文致力于在不同国家的文化背景中找出手势表达内涵的异同点。本文详述了手势在日常生活、社会交往和表达内心感受不同方面的使用。通过本文,人们会对手势的使用有一个基本了解,从而在跨文化交流中准确地使用手势,避免因对手势的误解而带来不便或者引起麻烦。
Introduction
To exchange ideas, sound languages would be employed by people. Recently, with economic globalization, trans-cultural communication between China and other countries is dramatically growing. The role of nonverbal communication, accordingly, keeps going on with the step. People always make a lot of gestures to express their thoughts. Even the smallest gestures can mean a lot. When people extend their hands to others, they may be doing more than they know. Each kind of human’s posture, especially the physique language formed by hand gestures, is a very important constituent of human communication system. It can express people's thoughts and feelings, and sometimes it is even more powerful than the glossary language. However, nonverbal communication is closely connected with culture. Due to the lack of awareness of cultural differences, cultural misunderstandings and conflicts are nothing new in intercultural communication. To get a full understanding of cultural difference, therefore, is the first step to make a further communication.
Four parts are included in this
thesis to talk about the application of hand gestures in detail. First, in daily life, people need to pay attention to position of hands and way of expression; second, hand signal can suggest human's psychological sentiment. However, in different regions, the same emotion can be expressed differently, and the same expression can also have a different emotional definition; third, when associating in the society, people should note the different hand signals and their finest distinctions; finally, some special meanings for some certain gestures which only exist in some particular countries or areas. In brief, hand signal is a special contacting method, and the appropriate use of hand signal can help people perceive others clearly and easily and efficiently, thus achieve the “win-win” effect.
I. Gestures in Daily Life
A. The Position of Hand when Standing Still or Taking Photos
It is very hard to place hands in a proper place when one stands straight. Theoretically, he needs to put two hands beside his body and with them relaxed. But actually, when he stands still a little more time, he always feels unnatural or embarrassed. Then he would like to change a position.
There are two basic hand postures when standing still: one way is to hang two hands naturally, with the center of the
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