Even as it grows as a second language, English may still not ever be the most widely spoken language in the world, according to Graddol, since so many people are native Chinese speakers and many more are learning it as a second language.
Immediacy. Definition of immediacy Â· Immediacy is a characteristic of a counselor's verbal response describing something as it occurs within a counseling session.
Immediacy is the directness and intensity of interaction between two entities (Mehrabian 1967:325). 2. Immediacy promotes psychological closeness (Anderson 1979). 3. In short, immediacy behaviors express approach or avoidance and, in the process, affect the level of sensory involvement of the participants (Burgoon et al. 1989:100). 4. Immediacy is the degree of perceived physical or psychological closeness between people (Richmond et al. 1991:205).