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Gestures and Beckoning from Around the World
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Look Around You
"People all over the world use their hands, heads, and bodies to communicate expressively."
-Roger E. Axtell 1991
Farewells
Beckonings
"Without gestures, our world be static, colorless."
-Roger E. Axtell 1991
- "The American goodbye can be translated in many parts of Europe and Latin America as 'no'." (Axtell, 1991)
- American, European, and Italian goodbye
- Different ways to get waiter/waitress attention
- Mexico: kissing sound
- France: get eye contact and nod head back
- China: turn water cup over
- Colombia: clap hands lightly
The Power of Gestures
Communication expert, Mario Pei once estimated that humans can produce up to 700,000 different physical signs.
David Givnes, author of Love Signals (Crown, New York, 1983) claims that men & women unconsciously shrug their shoulders when they find each other attractive.
Winston Churchill is probably credited with puting the "V for Victory" in both our history books and our contemporary usage as he flashed the sign in World War II
Gestures can also be a valuable form of opion polling. According to People magazine, at least one U.S. politician had his own system of gauging his popularity. "I watched the crowds waving to me," he explained, "and I count the number of fingers they're using ."
Politeness, as a universal phenomenon in society, is a reflection of specific cultural values, which can be observed in all languages and cultures.
-(Lu Yin Cultural Differences of Politeness in English and Chinese 2009)
Greetings
- Greetings can convey secret messages and can be physical
- When do we shake hands?
- Who bows first?
- "The lower the bow and the longer one holds the position, the stronger is the indication of respect, gratitude, sincerity, obeisance, humility, contriteness, etc." (Passport Books 1987)
Face-Negotiation Theory
Stella Ting-Toomey's face negotiation theory helps explain cultural differences in responses to conflict.
Ting-Toomy assumes that people of every culture are always negotiating face. Face = The projected image of one's self in a relational situation
The term is a metaphor for our public self-image, the way we want others to to see us and treat us.
Facework = "Is the specific verbal and non-verbal messages that help to maintain and restore face loss, and to uphold and honor face gain."
(Stella Ting-Toomy and Atsuko Kurogi 1998)