ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on special area of nonverbal communication, chronemics that is the study of how we use, structure, and gives meaning to time. Depending on a person's status, age, and degree of stress being experienced, the mind can distort perceptions of time. Time is psychological and social - cultural, as well as biological and physical. Feelings about time derive from both our cultural and our biological proclivities, and personal and interpersonal preferences. Personal time focuses on the individual experience of time. Personal notions of time influence both professional and social interpersonal relationships. Spending time together increases feelings of immediacy and closeness. Talk- or conversational time is a measure of who begins and ends a conversation, which person talks more than others, who selects what to talk about, and who directs the conversation. It similarly offers clues to a relationship's nature. The cultural dimension of time finds us exploring how the members of different cultures conceive of and use time.
