Analysis Of The Language Of Space In The Eastern And Western Cultures

This paper studies proxemics in terms of the contrast between the eastern and western culture,and points out functions of space language in communication. The concept of the east and the west is redelimited. Three cultural reasons of both differences and similarities between the eastern and western culture are introduced. Psychology and gender of communicators and the relationship between communicators are also considered as elements affecting space language in every culture.This paper makes an analysis of territoriality and the most important "sphere of influence" and illustrates that territoriality will disappear at urgent moments. In this paper,Altaian's division of territory is introduced. The author puts forward another territory:cooperative territory and describes the classification and functions of privacy and the variances in the idea of privacy between the east and the west.This paper describes briefly Edward Hall's division of space and Hall's four types of distance. The author points out that there is no necessary connection between contact culture and nearer distance and analyses equilibrium theory and expectation violation model. The paper involves in the comment on people's psychological reaction to crowding,psychological coordination of crowding and the variances of crowding between the eastern and the western culture with the view that it is not yet mature to conclude which is more accustomed to crowding,the east or the west. The author talks about different communicating results produced by different shapes of a table. The paper describes ways of occupying seats and of arranging seats in a banquet in the Chinese and western culture. In the end,this paper makes ananalysis of the F-formation arrangement,the reason of the change of F-formation and the function of one's office's location in a building for the manifestation of one's identity.