环境语的文化特征及对跨文化商务沟通的影响

Environmental Language and Its Influence on Cross-cultural Business Communication

环境语,主要包括时间信息和空间信息,是非言语交际的重要组成部分。环境语不仅能提供交际信息,并且能展示文化特征。在国际商务活动中,由于双方对时间和空间安排的理解不同,往往会产生磨擦。针对不同文化中的空间取向和时间取向进行比较研究,有助于人们进一步了解不同文化背景下的环境语言,促进跨文化商务沟通的成功。

Environmental language, including time and space information, is an improtant type of nonverbal communication. Diffeences between time and space concepts are easily to cause conflicts in intenationa business communiacation. The study on different time and space concepts beween Chinese and western culture can help us understand differnet environmental language and achieve succeses in cross-cultural business communication.