Section 1 Warm-up Intercultural movie
Secrets of Touch as a sign of power • Eye contact may betray one’s lies • Gestures indicate one’s real situation • Facial expression manifest one’s true feeling
• Appreciate how attitudes toward time and use of space convey nonverbal messages in intercultural encounters.
• Be aware of the importance of intercultural nonverbal communication for interpreters
如呻吟声、叹息声等) • second-order messages • the silent language • all those messages that people exchange
beyond the words themselves / without the use
1.2 The Importance of Nonverbal Communication
Questions for Discussion:
• 1. What is nonverbal communication and how can we define it? Why can’t we ignore the existence of nonverbal behaviors in intercultural communication?
Chapter 5
Nonverbal Communication
Learning Objectives
• Understand what nonverbal communication is and what function it serves.
• Specify the similarities and differences between verbal and nonverbal communication.
Verbal
• Structured • Linguistic • Discontinous • Clear • Acquired • Controllable • less Universal
Nonverbal • Unstructured • Nonlinguistic • Continuous • Ambiguous • Natural • Uncontrollable • More Universal
1.5 Classification of Nonverbal Communication
• (1) body movement (Kinesics) (身势语) • (2) eye contact (Oculesic) (目光语，目光对视) • (3) touching (Haptic) (接触) • (4) spatial language (Proxemic) (空间语言) • (5) Chronemics (时间语言) (temporal language) • (6) Paralanguage (副语言学).
Section 2
1. The Nature of Nonverbal Communication
1.1 Definition of Nonverbal Communication
• metacommunication (元信息传递) • paralinguistic (副语言，指手势语等；超语言，
The Selected Scene ---Signs of Power
Task:
• why Barak and Arafat avoid going through the door first and elaborate the importance of understanding body language.
• Describe cultural rules governing body language, which includes posture, gesture, eye contact, facial expressions, body touch and smell.
• Understand how paralanguage affect successful messages in intercultural encounters.
Warm-up questions
• Do you think that nonverbal behaviors like these are acquired or natural?
• Are nonverbal means mostly universal or culture-specific? • When contradictory messages are sent through both
verbal and nonverbal channels, which do you see as more accurate? • How important is nonverbal communication in intercultural communication? • Does culture have a strong impact on nonverbal behavior?
1.3 Functions of non-verbal communication
• Replacing • Modifying • Regulating • Conveying
• Repeating • Contradicting • Emphasizing
1.4 Characteristics of Nonverbal Communication