THE SILENT LANGUAGE
A detailed exploration of cultural differences in the handling of time, space, and communication among various societies, impacting interactions between individuals from different cultures.
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the colonists were not able to perceive it at all, because the native sense of time and space did not exhibit the same abstraction and independence from natural cues as their own. On
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
Time has always been an imaginary concept, and it matters who imagines it. For most of history, time has been governed by our relationship to the more-than-human world: the rising of the sun and the turning of the seasons. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, time was separated from the earth, and suborned by industry for its own e
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Philip G. Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University, has studied how we as humans perceive time.1 It seems that humans live in six psychological time zones: two in the past, two in the present, and two in the future. He divides the past into positive (those who are nostalgic, but also the keepers of family records, etc.) and
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Chronemics is an anthropological, philosophical, and linguistic subdiscipline that describes how time is perceived, coded, and communicated across a given culture. It is one of several subcategories to emerge from the study of nonverbal communication.