Which ones are the main Cultural differences in Non-verbal communication?
When we talk about non-verbal communication, we talk about:
Proxemics (how people manage the appropiate physical distance when interacting with others),
Kinesics (as the expressive meaning of corporal movements according to the culture they are used),
Facial and eye behavior and
Paralanguage (where is more important how people say things rather than what people say: tone, loudness, tempo, duration).
In that sense, for one culture it can be very familiar to talk to a person you do not know so near to him/her, while for other culture it can be considered disrespectful (proxemics).
If it is about kinesics, in one culture moving your head un and down can mean "yes", while for another one it can mean exactly the opposite: "no"!
With facial and eye behavior, we can find that some cultures are very inexpressive when talking (Austrians, for example), while people from Italy, Spain, Latinamerica are considered to be very expressive.
In Paralanguage, if we compare how people from Britain speak and people from Australia do, we can find big differences in tone and stress in some words. Not going so far, differences in communication emerge in regions in the same country (people from Antioquia, Bogotá, Atlantic Coast speak very different even though they speak Spanish).
Here, you have a video where different usages of languages are seen specially in young people, from a "Spanish" perspective:
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario