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What is proxemics?

What is proxemics? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The study of the effects of the physical distance between people in different cultures and societies.
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Kinesics and proxemics may also, in certain instances, involve vocalizations as accompaniments to nonverbal phenomena or as somehow integral to them.
Typically overlooked in nonverbal communication are proxemics, or the informal space around the body and chronemics.
Like proxemics, chronemics has also proliferated in meaning so that it not only includes time, but also the number of times as well as timing.
It is close to proxemics in the sense that the actors in the milieu will establish a hierarchy among the resources located nearby and those that are farther away.
Now, the bonds were there, but the proxemics had shifted, and it was beginning to dawn that we couldn't keep up our mutual holding pattern forever.
Of more general, cross-cultural significance are the theories involved in the study of proxemics developed by an American anthropologist, Edward Hall.

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