浅析体态语的符号特征、语用功能及文化差异

体态语是人类交际中常见的一种非语言交际行为,具有社会性、民族性、模糊性等七大符号特征。体态语的语用含义丰富,具有替代、调节、强势等八大语用功能。同时,作为文化一部分,体态语在不同的文化中,其所表达的含义也并不完全相同。研究体态语,对研究人类的跨文化交际具有重大理论和现实意义。

On Symbolic Features, Pragmatic Functions of Body Language and Cultural Differences Reflected in Body Language

Body language is a means of nonverbal communication often found in the communication of mankind. It has seven symbolic features as society, nationality, ambiguity and the like. It also possesses the following eight pragmatic functions of substitution, adjustment, emphasis and so on. As a part of culture, not all body language means the same thing in different cultures. The study of body language brings theoretical and practical significance to the study of intercultural communication.