非语言交际指的是语言行为以外的所有交际行为,对于非语言交际的研究当前已引起跨文化交际学界的广泛关注。非语言交际主要分为四类:体态语、副语言、客体语和环境语。本文主要从对待拥挤的态度、近体距离及领地观念三个方面探讨中英跨文化非语言交际中环境语的差异。 Non-verbal communication refers to all communicative activities except verbal behavior, and research on non-verbal communication has caused widespread concern in the field of intercultural communication. Nonverbal communication is mainly divided into four categories: body language, sublanguage, object language and environment language. This article mainly discusses the differences of environmental terms in cross-cultural non-verbal communication between China and Britain from three aspects: the attitude towards crowding, the distance between close bodies and the concept of territory.