Faces….. 2
well I was asked to say something more about the meaning of these faces. To make it short, I start on the left side, the top row:
- sadness, depression
- surprise
- joy, happiness
- disgust…………..
Faces…….. 1
thanks to Jinyang via facebook
wonderful facial expression.
Do you remember when you felt like this?
Do you remember what happened in those days?
Do you remember, with whom ………………
Read MoreAn aesthetical analysis of body language in conversation
HUANG He 1, ZHAN Qi-yi 2, ZHANG Yi-jun 1 (School of Liberal Arts, Kunming Science and Engineering University, Kunming 650224,China)
Aesthetical analysis of body language in a conversation is an important part of the aesthetical judgment analysis of conversational discourse, which includes the nice look of facial expression as its outer form and the meaning implied in such expression, the outer beauty of posture expression and meaning conveyed by such language. The role played by both facial expression and posture expression in discourse, during a conversation, is to aid, verify, impress or remove. Facial expression and posture expression, which is of aesthetical evaluation should be conformed to discourse and context. The relationship between signifier and the signified of body language is an expressive one. $$$$
【Key Words】： body language facial expression posture expression conversation aesthetical judgment
【Fund】： 云南省教育厅社科基金项目 :“口语交际美学原理研究”(0 12 3119)
【CateGory Index】： H0
【DOI】： CNKI:SUN:YNSF.0.2004-04-017
【Fund】： 云南省教育厅社科基金项目 :“口语交际美学原理研究”(0 12 3119)
【CateGory Index】： H0
【DOI】： CNKI:SUN:YNSF.0.2004-04-017
Body approach in China and Japan
Dear Ulrich,
I read your report on Psyche and Körper in Ost und West with great interest.
The differences between China and the west seem much greater than between Japan and the west.
I never worked in China, but went many times to Japan.
In Japan at first every client in a group expected to behave like others in the group.
There was a lot of social mask and group conformity.
When I was able, through somatic interventions, to get below this “tertiary layer” of personality, and could reach
the primary layer, I found a lot of emotional health, vitality and spontaneity coming from the early pre school years.
The secondary layer of anger, fear of sadness could only be contacted when trust from this primary layer had been established.
Wishing you all the best in your intercultural research
Warm greetings
David (Boadella)
Interrupting Communication 2
To begin with: Between China and western countries I think there is a big and important difference in living feelings, (cognitive) demands, (self-) control, a relationship and love. A difference which produces a lot irritation, disappointment, sadness, anger, hope and felling lost on the one hand or dependent on the other.
A week ago a friend of mine told me about his experience when the communication between his Chinese girl-friend and him was interrupted in a way which he could not understand and follow. They had had a relationship for say about one and a half years and they had been really in love with each other. After the relationship broke, they decided to go on being good friends but without a love-friendship. Both agreed ……………..
Read MoreThe skin is the message 6 – devaluation and shame
This morning I came across a little notice in my newspaper on a research about young people and internet mobbing. The main result of this research is the following: Embarrassing fotos are felt more severe than mockery and ridicule by words. More than half of the surveyed young people who have experience in cyber-mobbing suffer from unauthorized fotos and video clips in the internet, when these fotos or videos are used in a mockery manner. This is also experienced as a deep humiliation and a loss of trust.
In contrast to this, mockery by words, insults and verbal threats are only experienced by 25 % of the young people as deeply embarrassing. One conclusion out of this survey can be the following: people, especially young people, feel more unsecure and helpless thus much more struck on a nonverbal level than on a verbal level. They feel obviously more safe and more resistant on the verbal level than on the body level.
On the other hand they know very well the importance of the nonverbal level. And they operate there in an effectual and convincing way. Convincing here means, in a cruel way. Well, realising this, can bring up the idea to be more careful on the nonverbal level, to be more sensitive by using the body language as an important and direct approach to the other.
I wonder what kind of results there would be in other countries, mainly in China, Japan or so.
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The skín is the message 5 – The wish to be seen as resistance to the feeling of shame
Maybe you remember my experience in the underground of Berlin some dweeks ago. I had seen a couple having tattoos. When trying to look at the tattoos, because I got interested in the symbols which I could see even from the distance, the man addressed me in quite an aggressive way. He did not want to be seen, though having his tattoos uncovered so that everybody in the underground could see them.
So that everybody had to see them.
This experience again made me be aware of a paradox in our media society: There is a broad interest in to be seen, a deep longing for to be seen and a lot of activities to be seen. BUT on the one hand often the moment when someone is seen on TV or is so short that it is soon forgotten again. And on the other hand people react quite strange when they are seen, when someone really is interested in what they see.
This reminds me also of the feedback when people ……………..
Read MoreBeing a Manager in China 1
Most of the companies prepare their managers for the visit to or the job in China. Popular is an intercultural workshop where you can get information about the country, the culture, the people, the climate andsoon. Often participants of those workshops try to get familiar a bit with these habits and rules of behavior or communication by roleplay.
Yet this is only: learning the vocabulary and grammatics. This is not ( yet ) real life. Of course you would say this resembles to learn swimming or driving a car. And of course you will argue: it takes quite a long time to drive your car correctly, safely and joyfully.
Being confronted with a new culture, with very different people with odd and strange habits produces quite a big stress and strain for ………………
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China for kids
When I came across this website I felt like a kid. 😉
And at the same time I felt invited to learn more about China, the Chinese people and the Chinese culture by following the advice of this website in a very playful way. Playing and exploring always is like an adventure. and to be honest I am convinced that being part of an adventure help to vanish all obstacles, all resistance to any kind of intercultural problems. And being a child invites you to explore a culture more or less on a noverbal level. And this is the chance you and we have. Trust this playful, nonverbal approach to you and the other. Trust the stranger in yourself and make him familiar to yourself. 😉
Trust the child in yourself.
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/china_for_kids.htm
Read MoreGender imbalance or: love has to be an effective and efficient project
Though this info dates back to 2010 it is more or less very up to date. The actuality even grows from year to year. The severe consequences for men and women in China will also grow from year to year. All this has of course a deep impact on (nonverbal) communication and relationship in China. Probably also among Chinese in other countries.
Remembering some Chinese talking about looking for or finding a man or a woman, or being found and chosen leads to peculiar and strange behavior between the sexes. For example, talking about this life issue often is connected to the perspective of having more or less a chance to find someone or to be found by someone. Looking for a relationship, trying to find someone to relate to and to fall in love with is ……………
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