A Presentation On ‘The History Of

Proxemics’
Presented By
Puja Roy,Roll-45
Department Of Linguistics
University Of Dhaka

Instructed By-
Dr.Hakim Arif
Professor, Course No-2404
Department Of Linguistics
University Of Dhaka
 The Statement Of Proxemics
The Proxemics means that,
• The use of space used in specific
Communication event between the
Addresser and Addressee.

According to Hall,
• “…..the interrelated observation and
theories of man’s use of space as a
specialized elaboration of culture”.(1966)
 The Inauguration period of
Proxemics

The word Proxemics is a Latin Origin

word
Prox=Nearness and Emic=Science
Prox+Emic=Proxemics
After that, it derives from Greek word
The Forefather Of Proxemics
The Books of
Edward T .Hall
NO 1-The Silent Language

• First
illustrated
Proxemics
in this
book
• In 1959
it’s written
by Edward
T. Hall
Another
book
No 2-THE Hidden Dime
sion

It was also
written by
Edward
T.Hall in
1966
• Legendary Edward T. Hall’s ideas were
developed more systematically in his article
and it is “Handbook For Proxemics
Research”(1974)
• In those stunning two books,Hall
presented some theoretical contextual
in special distance of communication and
Communicative event which vary many
culture to culture or country to country.
 Exploration
• Book-Quantitive
Watson and Graves
• Proxemic Behavior

• Article-The Dynamics Of Space

Fortson and Larson ;And The Experimental Study Of
Proxemic Behavior,Among Latin
America And North America

• Latin descentend prefer to

maintain less distance

• Article-1977

• ‘Contrasting Cultural Pattern in

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