跨文化交际
Cross-cultural Communication
Unit 6
Non-Verbal Communication
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Unit 6. Non-Verbal Communication
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What is non-verbal communication? What purposes does
it serve?
Express puzzlement
Rules for using gestures in CCC
Facial expressions reveal various emotions
Rules governing eye contact
Rules governing proximity and contact
Successful CCC depends on not only what we say and the
manner in which we say it, but also on the behaviour we
display
Unit 6 Non-verbal Communication
Warm up (P.223)
Activity 1. What Is Non-verbal Communication?
Activity 2. Gestures
Activity 3. Facial Expressions
Activity 4. There’s Language in Her Eye …
Activity 5. Keeping One’s Distance
Review
Warm up(P.223)
A. Quotes.
1. There is language in her eye, her cheek, her lip.
—William
Shakespeare
2. … reflected in the face and in the attitudes of the body whether still or in
motion.
—Socrates(ancient Greek philosopher)
3. The unspoken dialogue between two people can never be put right by
anything they say.
—— Dag Hammarskjild (former Secretary General of the UN)
B. The origin of the handshake. (P.224)
It once was a way of reassuring strangers that you were not going to
attack them by demonstrating that your sword hand was empty.
C. To the Nepalese and Sri Lankans, nodding one’s head means not “yes”,
but “no” .
D. In communicating with people of other cultures, we need to_______
①be able to speak the target language
② have some mastery of the non-verbal behavior that accompanies it.
Activity 1. What’s non-verbal communication?
• Task 1. Reflecting on our own culture(p.225)
• Task 2. Puzzled and Perplexed (listening)
• Dialogue 1. About “staring at sb.”
• Dialogue 2. Look at sb. when talking to him/her(eye contact)
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(Some Asian countries such as Japan, and some Latin American
countries such as Puerto Rica etc are exceptions. )
• Dialogue 3. About “clapping”/ applauding
• Dialogue 4. About “hugging and kissing in public”
• Task 3. Showing Puzzlement
Activity 1. (continued)
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Task 4. The Purposes of Non-verbal Communication
Text {Five Purposes mentioned in the last Paragraph}. (P.230)
① It can replace verbal communication, as with the use of gesture.
② It can modify verbal communication, e.g. loudness of tone of voice.
③ It regulates social interaction: turn taking (i.e. who speaks first and how
long) is largely governed by non-verbal signals.
④ It conveys our emotions.
⑤ It conveys our attitude towards ourselves and towards the people we are
communicating with. This is particularly important for successful CCC.
Task 5. More about Non-verbal Communication
1. In addition to the words we use we convey a whole variety of info to others
with our bodies.
2. ① the way we move ② the gestures ③ the posture ④the facial expression ⑤
the direction of our gaze ⑥ the extent to which we touch ⑦ the distance we
stand from each other
3. object language = the clothes we wear, how we adorn ourselves…
Activity 2. Gestures
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Task 1. What do these gestures mean to us?
Task 2. What do these gestures mean to others?
Text Making a Gesture (P.236)
Task 3. Reading Comprehension
Task 4. Critical Incident
• The gesture for beckoning someone in China is that the hand is extended
toward the person, palm open and facing down, with all fingers crooked in
a beckoning motion.
• ★Gestures can mean different things in different cultures. So
if you want to communicate with people of other cultures more
successfully, you need to sharpen your awareness of such
differences.
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伸出食指和中指，中国人表示"二"，可美国人表示V（胜利）；我们用大拇指和
食指表示"八"，可我们的"八"字造型在美国人的眼里却是"二"，就这个"二"和"
八"，在中美交往中闹出过不少笑话。
Activity 3. Facial Expressions
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Task 1. Human Beings: Emotional Animals
How many basic emotions can you name?
Six basic emotions:
① surprise (shock)
② fear (horror)
③ disgust (revulsion
④ anger (fury)
⑤ happiness
(ecstasy)
⑥ sadness (grief)
Task 2. r u a good judge of facial expressions?
Task 3. Behind the Mask
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Text: Wearing the Mask (P.243)
Task 4. Reading Comprehension(P.245)
Task 5. Working with Words
Task 6 Critical Incident
Activity 4. There’s Language in Her Eye…
• Task 1. What Would You Do in the Following Situations?
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Eye contact is an important aspect of body language.
• Task 2. More Than Meets the Eye
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Text: Exchanging Glances: More to It than Meets the Eye?
★The Rules for Eye Contact for the British:
1. passing strangers in the street: You must avoid staring at them but at the
same time avoid ignoring them. To be exact, you may look at the approaching
strangers until they are about 8 feet away, then your glances must veer away as
they pass.
2. Communicating with one another: British practice expects eye contact,
though this does not have to be constant.
3. Addressing an audience: in addressing an audience, a British lecturer should
look at his audience now and then. For him to bury his nose in his manuscript is
frowned upon.
• Task 3. A Closer Look (P.252) T/F
• Task 4. Words to Watch:
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glance, peep, feast your eyes, gaze, inspect, stare, peer, gawk…
Activity 5. Keep One’s Distance
• Task 1. Transferring Information
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Four main categories of distance for Americans:
① intimate distance (husband and wife) 0-45cm(0-1.5feet)
② personal distance (friends, relatives) 45-80cm (1.5-4feet)
③ social distance (at social gathering) 1.3-2.0m(4-12feet)
④ public distance (a lecturer and his audience) (12 feet or more)
• Task 2. Choosing Titles (P.256)
• Task 3. Taking a Closer Look (T/F)
• Task 4. Where Do We Stand?
• Edward T. Hall, the American anthropologist who first developed the
study of Proxemics(空间关系学：研究人与人在不同社会环境中对空间的需
要以及人对周围空间感觉的一门学科。).
• Task 5. Words Indicating Relationships Drawn from Space
• ① Reserved: stand-offish, unapproachable, withdrawn, drifting apart
• ② Friendly: intimate, approachable, attached, inseparable
Activity 5. （continued）
• Task 6. Idioms Composed of “Arm”, “Hand” and “Finger”(P.260)
• Task 7. Was Angela Too Touchy?
• 作业（三）
• Homework:
• A Letter to Angela (P.264)
Review
• 第六单元
体态语交流
• 内容：介绍体态语在跨文化交际中的重要作用。
• 教学目的：使学员熟悉不同种类的体态语以及不同文化对体态语
的不同解释。
• 学习目标：通过练习能够描述体态语的不同意义;意识到成功的跨
文化交际不仅需要知道如何用语言表达,而且要知道伴随恰当的体
态语，在交流中有意识地注意脸部表情、目光接 触、手势和身体
位置、身体距离等。