pany the utterance 'I've no idea!'" (Crystal, 1992). Some people call this form of communication body language, i.e. "Communication using body movement, position, and appearance, such as facial expression, hand gestures, and the mutual body orientation of the speakers; called, more technically, nonverbal communication" (Crystal, 1992). How we move and place our body can be communicatively informative: we feel happy, comfortable, hostile, friendly, pained, anxiousà Significantly, some 80% of communication is said to be nonverbal. In fact, it is well-nigh impossible to communicate without using body language.
Proxemics, i.e. "The study of the cultural, behavioral, and sociological aspects of spatial distances between individuals" (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 1992). How we keep our distances when face to face is sociologically and culturally significant.
Appearance, i.e. how we dress and adorn ourselves to project our feelings and self-image and how we want others to perceive us.
Paralinguistics which deals with how we vary our tones of voice; how we pause in our discourse; the quality of our voice; sounds that are not words, yet carry meanings. Our voice tends to reveal our age, gender, culture, educational level, land of birth, emotional state, and relationship with our interlocutor. Speech has text, the words, and vocal paralanguage, the setting (pitch, intonation, accent, emotion, hesitations, sarcasm, etc.) in which words are spoken. Normally, words, paralanguage, and silence are integrated to convey meanings. Thus it is that one cannot learn a language without learning its culture, without acquiring at least the major nonverbal behaviors which characterize the culture whence they derive, as well as the structure that makes that language unique. Lambert (1967) argued that integrative orientation towards the culture of the target language is an important factor for successful language learningùw...