... cm)Spouses, lovers, parents and children, close friends,etc showing intimate emotion or communicatingpartners showing highly negative attitudesClose phase 0 – 6inches (0– 15 cm)Spouses, lovers, ... object language (including clothing, jewellery ), andenvironmental language (proxemics, setting ).’Nguyen Quang (forthcoming: 45) also gives the following diagram locating verbal andnonverbal ... face to face floorholding, turn taking and yielding, and in closing sequences. Paralleling to this function isthe importance of eye contact and gaze in affection displays (jealousy, nervousness,...