Revue Maghrébine des Langues
Volume 8, Numéro 1, Pages 154-160
2013-12-31
Proxemics: A Fundamental Dimension In Cross Cultural Communication
Authors : Bouhadiba Zoulikha .
Abstract
Proxemics (the use of space) is part of the various components of nonverbal communication and plays an important role in the process of interaction. One’s perception and use of space is widely influenced and conditioned by one’s culture. One is identified according to one’s cultural traits that are reinforced by one’s language, traditions, behaviour and nonverbal communication. As there are cultural differences in kinesics (use of gestures), facial expressions, body movements, eye behaviour and so on, there are cultural differences in proxemics. Proxemic behaviour differs from a culture to another. Space is owned and handled according to the culture one has been brought up in. Proxemics, an essential facet of non-verbal communication, also communicates and must answer “cultural rules” or “codes of behaviour”.
Keywords
Proxemics: a fundamental dimension in cross cultural communication
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