Unit10SpaceandCommunication分析.ppt

Space and Communication Discussion Where are you usually choose to sit in a classroom? Why? If a person decided to change where he or she normally sits, do you think the person’s behavior would change? Proxemics The study of the cultural, behavioral, and sociological aspects of spatial distances between individuals. Hediger’s study How did certain animals space themselves? Hall’s Study Photograph Game “right space” Four Body Space Dimensions intimate (0 to 18 inches) personal-casual (1.5 to 4 feet) social-consultive (4 to 12 feet) public (12 feet and beyond) (Hall: The Hidden Dimension) How physically close or distant two people stand when they talk tells a great deal about their relationship. Space in Different Cultures There are strong cultural differences in perception of the appropriate space between people involved in interpersonal communication. For Instance a U.S. male a U.S. male 18 22 ∣ 20 24 a man (he doesn’t know) woman In Latin American and the Middle East people keep closer space when talking For Instance A European American cold pushy remote intimate A Latin American Page 147 Public Space The way people arrange and use public space also reflects cultural attitude toward space and privacy. Crowded Space Crowded space I. A persistent and popular view holds that high population density inevitably leads to violence. This myth, which is based on rat research, applies neither to us nor to other primates (Waal et al. 2000:77). Crowded space II. This pathological togetherness [resulting from a rat population explosion which led to killing, sexual assaults, and cannibalism], as C