摘　要

人与人间的交际一般被分为语言和非语言两种形式。语言在交际中的作用固然重要，但非语言交际的作用也是不容忽视的。在当今社会中，语言形式和非语言形式，尤其是非语言形式，在跨文化交际中所起到的作用越来越突出。非语言交际对于语言交际有着很明显的补充作用，它可以使人们的交际获得更理想的效果。如今,社会越来越发展，不同国家之间的交流越来越密切,不同国家之间人与人之间的交流越来越频繁，跨文化交际势不可挡。语言形式和非语言形式在跨文化交际都起着重要的作用。不同国家的语言形式一般不同，而且非语言形式也不尽相同。这对不同国家人们之间的交流带来不便，甚至会发生冲突和误解。该论文对跨文化交际中的语言和非语言形式进行了详尽的探讨和论述，对不同文化背景下非语言形式的不同之处进行了较全面介绍和判析。

关键词：文化；语言形式；非语言形式；跨文化交际

Abstract

Communication among humans is divided into verbal and nonverbal forms. Although the role of verbal forms in communication is very important, the function of nonverbal forms in communication should not be ignored, either. In the present society, verbal and nonverbal forms, especially nonverbal forms, are playing an increasing important role in international communications. Nonverbal forms are apparently complementary to verbal forms, which can help to achieve a more desirable communicative effect. Nowadays, multi-culture communication is by all means inevitable as the communication among different nations is becoming closer and closer and the communication among the people from different countries is becoming more and more frequent with the advance of the society. Both verbal and non-verbal communications are of great importance in multi-culture communications. Different nations usually use different languages, and their nonverbal forms are also different, which is bound to result in inconvenience, even conflict and misunderstanding in the communication among the people from different countries. This paper explores and discusses in detail the two verbal and non-verbal forms in multi-culture communications, and offers a comparatively comprehensive introduction and analysis of the nonverbal forms under different cultural backgrounds.

Key words: culture; verbal forms; nonverbal forms; international communication

1 Introduction
Nowadays, when people communicate with each other, they always emphasize verbal language, but ignore nonverbal forms. As we all know, with the rapid development of modern science and economy, globalization has become a major trend in the world today. People from different cultures are badly in need of exchange and communication with one another, and mutual understanding and communication from different cultures and regions help to realize the people’s needs. Hence, international communication will become a very common social activity. However, generally speaking, differences in cultures bring great difficulties to mutual understanding among the people from different cultures, and sometimes they may even result in unnecessary misunderstanding and conflicts. In communications among the people of different cultures, nonverbal forms are of great importance as the majority of our feelings and intentions are sent through nonverbal communication.