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UNIT 4 BODY LANGUAGE What I hide by my language，my body utters. —Roland Barthes 我的身体会说出我用言语掩饰的话。 ——罗兰.巴特 人与社会 ——肢体语言 单元主题语境 COMMUNICATION: NO PROBLEM? Yesterday，another student and I，representing our university’s student association，went to the Capital International Airport to meet this year’s international students.They were coming to study at Beijing University.We would take them first to their dormitories1 and then to the student canteen.After half an hour of waiting for their flight to arrive，I saw several young people enter the waiting area looking around curiously. I stood for a minute watching them and then went to greet them. 类文赏读　话题导入 The first person to arrive was Tony Garcia from Colombia，closely followed by Julia Smith from Britain.After I met them and then introduced them to each other，I was very surprised.Tony approached2 Julia，touched her shoulder and kissed her on the cheek! She stepped back appearing surprised and put up her hands，as if in defence3.I guessed that there was probably a major misunderstanding.Then Akira Nagata from Japan came in smiling，together with George Cook from Canada.As they were introduced，George reached his hand out to the Japanese student.Just at that moment，however，Akira bowed so his nose touched George’s moving hand.They both apologized—another cultural mistake! Ahmed Aziz，another international student，was from Jordan.When we met yesterday，he moved very close to me as I introduced myself.I moved back a bit，but he came closer to ask a question and then shook my hand.When Darlene Coulon from France came dashing4 through the door，she recognized Tony Garcia’s smiling face.They shook hands and then kissed each other twice on each cheek，since that is the French custom when adults meet people they know.Ahmed Aziz，on the contrary，simply nodded at the girls.Men from Middle Eastern and other Muslim countries will often stand quite close to other men to t