Comparative Study on Euphemism and Body Language in Cross-cultural Communication

With the development of the world,cross-cultural communication becomes more and more general.To pay attention to the cross-cultural study and to familiarize with the errors in our daily cross-cultural communication are two important ways to foster and improve the ability of cross-cultural communication.They are also two important parts to make cross-cultural communication activities smoothly.Body language is a way of nonverbal communication commonly used in human contact,the main function of it is to make our language colorful and expressive.If you can use body language suitably,then you can get better effect.Otherwise you will fall into communication failures.The euphemism is tied to ethnic psychology,religion,values,customs and other factors.It is good to deepen our knowledge of Sino-Western language and culture by getting more information about euphemism.And to learn more about euphemism can help you reduce barriers in cross-cultural communication.