Jingguang Li

Jingguang Li

25 October, 2024

Nonverbal communications, Differences, China, Western countries.

In the recent years, Nonverbal communicative elements especially the differences of nonverbal communication between China and Western countries have become hot topics among the researchers and college English teachers. Starting with the illustration of the definition of nonverbal communication, this thesis mainly has made a detail analysis on the differences of nonverbal communicative elements from a few aspects such as environmental languages, objective languages, body languages and para-languages, then it points out the origins resulting in such differences from the two aspects, the cultural factors related to social status and the cultural elements relevant to the social relation. Finally the thesis has made some expectation on the research prospect, giving some suggestions which can be used as some references for other researchers in the future, pushing forward the research on nonverbal communication together with one another.

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