【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ures but faces the audiences as what many Chinese do, they would be thought of indifference and impoliteness to audiences. Americans think the people who don’t dare to municate by eyes lack sincerity or dishonesty. Also the educated Englishman takes ‘directly looking at the partner’s eyes’ as gentlemen。 in public of French, Frenchmen think gazing at ladies as norm of culture. Eye Contact in Various Cultures The functions of eye contact are quite rich and various. Eye contact is important way of judging the relationship between two speakers. But the cultures of different countries of eye contact have great differences. Contrary to the above example, the Middle East women believing Islamic will be very angry if men look at their eyes, in their daily life, their faces are always covered with black veil. Chinese people are unaccustomed to being looked at directly, which is taken as an impolite action, Indians and Japanese also have such view. So there exit such embarrassing situation that when Chinese people converge with Englishspeaking people facetoface, during conversation Englishspeaking people will be unpleasant about Chinese people’s rarely eye contact, which will make them feel selfcontemptuous or be looked down upon by the partner. However, Chinese people feel unfortable and uneasy about the partner’s too much eye contact, because which make them suspect if they make some mistake. “The language of the eyes”— also one of the most mon and ancient ways of exchanging feelings between boys and girls, men and women—is especially elaborate in the United States. Many studies have been made: how people of the opposite sex show interest or indifference, encouragement or discouragement, approval or disapproval, affection or aversion. However, there are many differences even within the United States. Men use their eyes in more different ways than women。 there are differences of age, class or social status, geographical region。 and ethnic background.　　The story is told of a teenage Puerto Rican girl in a New York high school who was taken with a number of other girls to the principal for suspected smoking. Although there was no proof of any wrongdoing and she had a good record, the principal thought she should be punished and suspended her. “There was something sly and suspicious about her,” he said in his report. “She dared not meet my eyes. She dared not look at me.” When she was questioned by the principal it was true that she kept staring at the floor and refused to meet his eyes. And in English there is a saying “Don’t trust anyone who won’t look at you in the eye.” It happened that one of the teachers had a Latin American background and knew about Puerto Rican culture. After talking with the girl’s parents, he went to the principal and explained that according to Puerto Rican culture, a good girl didn’t meet the eyes of an adult. Such behavior, he explained, was a sign of respect and obedience. Fortunately, the principal accepted the explanation, admitted his mistake and the matter was settled properly. This difference in interpreting a simple eye gesture was a lesson in cultural diversity that he would not easily forget.According to the above cases, we can know the rules about eye contact are plicated and various, the meaning of eyes contact can be very different according to countries, districts, ethnics, gender, social status, and ages. The cases mentioned above are mon ones in daily life. We can learn a lot from it. But we still need practice actually. Body Distance Psychologists discover any person needs personal space, yet skins are not the boundary of personal space, their personal spaces are encircled by bubbles and other people can’t break in at will. The Kind of Body Distance People always carry personal space with them no matter how far they will go, and they always have a kind of instinctive mon sense of selfguard. So the speakers talking with him need to keep a distance during conversation to avoid offence. The anthropologist and socialist Doctor Hall advanced 4 kinds of definitions for it. 1. Intimate distance (045cm)—proper for spouse and lovers。 distance(5120cm)—Proper for friends, acquaintances, and relatives。 distance (120360cm)—proper for dealing with impersonal thing。 4,public distance(360750cm)—proper for informal party. Actually these concepts are deeprooted in the whole society, but in some degree which are effected by many factors: ①density of population in specific unit space。 ②influence of accept level and intimate extent. Influence of different custom and culture background. influence of social status.(Ethel, 47) Here author mainly talk about the use of body distance in different custom and culture background. The people of different countries, ethnic, races and areas have different habit when they talk with each other in intercultural munication。 we can choose proper body distance according to the above definition of body distance during conversation with different people. Culture Difference about Body DistanceArab and Spanish try to stand close to show friendliness. In their culture standing closely is the manner of the people when they converge. They stand close as possible as they can as if they want to smell the smells of the partner。 Englishman wants to keep their personal space when they talk with the others, so pay attention not to taking up the partners’ space 。 Chinese people conform with the principle of nontouching culture during the conversation. They keep a moderate distance when talking with others. There is a very interesting picture when Englishmen talk with Arab. The Arab, showing amicable to Englishman, will walk close to the Englishman, but the latter continues moving back. The Arab moves forward to be closer again, but the Englishman keeps moving backward. By the end of the conversation, the two people may be quite a distance from the place where they were originally standing! We have just talk abo