Silence is an overlooked aspect of paralanguage that carries meaning. D. Time, or chronemics, and space, or proxemics, also convey messages. The values we attach to and the way we use time provide useful information about us. People have different psychological orientations to the present and the future. People are also controlled by biological clocks.
Cultures also differ in the meanings they attach to time.
The way we use space is called proxemics. We mark and defend four kinds of territories, public, home, interaction and body, these territories can be encroached through contamination, violation, and invasion. The ways we arrange home and public territories affect the amount, flow, and kind of interaction that occur in these territories. Each of us varies in our attitudes to personal space, how close we prefer to be to other people. The extreme of personal closeness is touch.