ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the experience of personal identity must necessarily consider the interaction between perceptual and psychological temporalities, themselves grounded in biological processes and constraints. Given this backdrop, the next section of this chapter examines personal time as it relates to communicative interaction. This chapter develops an initial approximation of a foundation for understanding the role of subjective temporality in human interaction with particular reference to personal identity. The processes, together with the variety of hierarchically ordered temporalities, greatly expand the vocabulary that may be brought to bear for understanding the development of self-other identities within social interaction. This chapter has not considered the development and design of research methodologies to study tempo in social interaction. The influences on social interaction have alluded to here are not seen as restricted to specific events, occasions, or contexts but are instead suggested to underlie all interactional activities.
