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English and American Concepts of Space Edward T. Hall 1It has been said that the English and the Americans are two great people separated by one language. The differences for which language gets blamed may not be due so much to words as to communications on other levels beginning with English intonation (which sounds affected to many Americans) and continuing to ego-linked ways of handling time, space, and materials. If there ever were two cultures in which differences of the proxemic空间关系学的One of the basic reasons for this wide disparity不同；提示’s home but to the business address as well). The Joneses from Brooklyn and Miami are not as “in” as the Joneses from Newport and Palm Beach. Greenwich and Cape Cod are worls apart from Newark and Miami. Businesses cocated on Madison and Park avenues have more tone tan those on Seventh and Eighth avenues. A corner office is more prestigious有名望的The Englishman, however, is born and brought up in a social system. He is still Lord – no matter where you find him, even if it is behind the counter in a fishmonger’ 鱼贩In addition to除…之外 除…之外except as, over and above between the English and ourselves in how space is allotted. 2The middle-class American growing up in the United States feels he has a right to have his own room, or at least part of a room. My American subjects, when asked to draw an ideal room or office, invariably drew it for themselves and no one else. When asked to draw their present room or office, they drew only their own part of a shared room and then drew a line down the middle. Both male and female subjects identified the kitchen and the master bedroom as belonging to the other or the wife, whereas Father’s territory was a study or a den贼窝otherwise, it was “the shop,” “the basement,” or sometimes only a workbench工作台The closed door is the sign meaning “Do not disturb” or “I’m angry.” An American is available if his door is open at home or at his office. He is expected not to shut himself off but to maintain himse