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charted the relationships between how people stood in space and field of vision, thermal awareness, volume of speech, ability to touch, linguistics, and other characteristics of interpersonal interaction. The result of these relationships became Hall’s classification of 4 major categories of space: intimate, personal, social, and public.

space as a cultural marker of learned behavior. For Hall, proxemics was the study of the nonverbal use of space as a marker of culture.

When Edward Hall coined the term proxemics in The Hidden Dimension (1966), he used it to mean “social and personal space and man’s perception of it.”5 The role of space in our everyday lives is part of our culture. Our learned behaviors, he argues, are as foundational to our use of space as they are to other forms of verbal and nonverbal communicat

Hall argued that not only is the study of proxemics interested in the ways that people negotiate interpersonal space and distance, but also in the organizing principles they use in arranging their spaces at home and work, and even in the organization of their cities and towns.

Hall again divided social space into close social space, characterized as 4 to 7 feet, and far social space, from 7 to 12 feet.

The world is becoming more technologically complex, interdependent, and culturally diverse, which makes the building of relationships more and more necessary to get things accomplished and, at the same time, more difficult. Relationships are the key to good communication; good communication is the key to successful task accomplishment; and Humble

In 1966, Edward Hall coined the term ‘proxemics’ (pronounced präk-SEE-miks) in his book The Hidden Dimension1 to name an as-yet-undocumented aspect ← vii | viii →of our lived experience. His studies of human interactions across cultures led him to describe proxemics as the study of human use of space in personal, social, and public contexts.