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The Silent Language
Edward T. Hall
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 1990
主題
Social Science / Body Language & Nonverbal Communication
Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN
0385055498
9780385055499
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uIRyHhuWT_EC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
A leading American anthropologist analyzes the many vitally important ways in which people "talk" to one another without the use of words.
"
The Silent Language
shows how cultural factors influence the individual behind his back, without his knowledge." —Erich Fromm
The pecking order in a chicken yard, the fierce competition in a school playground, every unwitting gesture and action—this is the vocabulary of the "silent language." According to Dr. Hall, the concepts of
space
and
time
are tools with which all human beings may transmit messages.
Space
, for example, is the outgrowth of an animal's instinctive defense of his lair and is reflected in human society by the office worker's jealous defense of his desk, or the guarded, walled patio of a Latin-American home. Similarly, the concept of
time
, varying from Western precision to Easter vagueness, is revealed by the businessman who pointedly keeps a client waiting, or the South Pacific islander who murders his neighbor for an injustice suffered twenty years ago.
