Using greeting gestures in America and Vietnam – The similarities and differences in light of cross culture communication

Abstract

Part I: Introduction presents the rationales, aims, research questions, scope, methods and design of the study. Part II: Consists of three chapters: The first chapter is theoretical background which provides readers the overview of culture, communication and body language. The second chapter talks about greeting and 10 common greeting gestures in America and Vietnam. The final chapter is data analysis and comparison. In this chapter, I compare and analyze the findings obtained from the survey questionnaires and evaluations and after that I point out the similarities and differences in the using greeting gesture in 2 countries. The study is ended with the third part - Conclusion. This part presents an overview of the study, and recommendations for further study.