Nonverbal Communication and Its Cross-Cultural Differences

Nonverbal communication (NVC) is quite significant in human communications. Its presentation forms and interpretation norms vary from culture to culture. Basically nonverbal behaviors can be grouped into three areas: Kinesics, Proxemics and Paralanguage; and the functions they perform can be expressed in five categories: accenting, complementing, substituting, regulating, and contradicting :compared with verbal communication). Careful research on NVC has constructive influences on boosting communication that involves participants from different cultural backgrounds.