【正文】 motions during social munication. Cultures differ in the amount of touching which they prefer. People in the highcontact cultures touch each other in social conversations much more than people do from low contact cultures. These cultural differences can lead to difficulties in intercultural munication.The Chinese belong to lowcontractual cultures While in China。s heart. For example, you have received a present from your friend that you do not like. Though you will say, I like it very much happily, your facial expression will show that you are unhappy. That is to say, your facial expression contradicted with what you said. A boy told his mother lightly that it was not him who broke the vase, but he dare not look at his mother39。 at this moment his friends want to point out his defects in words but were afraid of hurting his pride, so they use eye contacts to prevent him. Third, when words are unnecessary and it is better to be silent than saying anything, only eye contact or smile will be more useful. Fourth, because of the special environment, people can only use nonverbal munication. For example, policemen have a certain body language that can only be understood by them. When they are going to rescue a hostage they will use eye contacts or gestures to convey information in order not to be discovered by the criminals. ComplementingAccording to the psychologist Birdwhistell, the municative message conveyed by verbal behaviors in conversation only contains 30%, and the other messages are all conveyed by nonverbal means (basically body language). That is to say, sometimes the voiced languages were powerless and the nonverbal behaviors will plement these speech acts by eye contacts, facial expressions, gestures, postures, etc. These silent body languages start by remedy the powerlessness and inadequacies. British Prime Minister Churchill, who paid much attention to speech art, said in one of his lectures that our living level was higher than any other historical periods, we ate too much. Then he stopped and stared at the audience and pointed at his own big stomach and said: “This is the most powerful proof.”[2] Churchill used nonverbal acts twice to modify voiced language. First he stopped intentionally to cause the public39。 however, they only belong to some literal meaning. Actually, what people said are some kind of behavior with aims and consciousness. This information, which should contain the motivation, feeling and attitude, usually expressed through body language. Especially when body language and voiced language are used together, body language undertakes almost all the pragmatic meaning and emotional meaning expressed of voiced language. There are basically five functions in munication: repeating, plementing, substituting, regulating and contradicting. RepeatingPeople should realize that they do not talk continuously, but do give out signals continuously through body language when they are in someone else39。肢體語言差異AbstractBody language is an important part of nonverbal munication and it is connected with culture. We should realize that body language, like verbal munication, has many similarities all over the world. However, body language from different cultures has many differences because of different regions, races and cultural customs. Having a good knowledge of body language is necessary in intercultural munication. What’s more in business munication, which is more plicated, body language plays a more important role. Generally, business munication is a formal means of munication, like: meetings, interviews, group discussion, presentation, speeches etc. It’s much formal and requires more knowledge about body language. As body language plays an important part in business munication. In order to make successful exchange in crosscultural munication, we should know the body language from different cultures. We will first discuss what is body language and then we will focus on the study of the functions of body language in intercultural munication and a parative study of body language between Chinese and western countries in terms of facial expression, Gestures, eye contact, physical contact and posture and then find ways to avoid misunderstandings in business munication.Key Words: intercultural munication, cultural differences, body language, function of body language, differences of body language Table of Contents Introduction 1Chapter I A brief introduction of body language and its fuction 3 The conception of body language 3 The reason lead to body language differences—cultural differences 4 The function of body language 5 Repeating 6 Substituting 6 Complementing 7 Contradicting 8 Regulating 9Chapter II A constructive study of body language between Chinese and western country 11 Contrastive study of facial expression 11 Contrastive study of gestures 12 The same gesture with different meanings in different cultures 12 Different gestures with same meaning 13 Gesture and meaning in one culture without equivalent in other cultures 13 Contrastive study of eye contact 14 Contrastive study of physical contact 15 Contrastive study of posture 15Chapter III Ways to avoid misunderstandings in business munications 18 Increase awareness of body language 18 Combine the culture and context in understanding the body language 19 Respect other nation39。關(guān)鍵詞：跨文化交際商務(wù)溝通是一種正式的溝通方式，一般包括會議，面試，集體討論，工作報(bào)告，演講等。本科生畢業(yè)論文設(shè)計(jì)題目 商務(wù)活動中的肢體語言 作者姓名 指導(dǎo)教師 所在學(xué)院 外國語學(xué)院 專業(yè)（系） 商務(wù)英語 Body language in Intercultural Business Communication摘 要肢體語言是非語言交際的重要組成部分并和文化緊密聯(lián)系在一起。商務(wù)場合更為正式并且要求掌握更多的肢體語言知識。文化差異 肢體語言 s culture values and social customs 19Conclusion 21Reference 22Acknowledgement 24 IntroductionAll the human beings on the earth, despite differences in theirs pany. 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