[UA] Re: Emoticons/Linguistics

[Chad Underkoffler]

> From: "Patrick None" <deadairis at hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 06:51:11 -0700
>
> > > Lastly on this dry bit - which is to me the most UAable
> > > part. What if someone took the (to most researchers) 
> > > indescrete, basically unanalyzably complex aspects of 
> > > conversation - including body language - and made each 
> > > unit discrete?
> >
> > People do this in the real world, but I can't recall their
> > field of study's name. Physiolinguistics?
>
> A lot of fields in linguistics are involved in this; it
> depends on which "discrete" aspect you're looking at. Body 
> language is usually under semantic study, just because its 
> hard to pin down what it is.

Hmmm. Semantics (and semiotics) brings us neatly back to Eco,
who deserves a "special thanks" credit in UA2 as much as anyone.

> I don't have any references handy, but I can email my old 
> semantics professor.  A lot of that research is part of the 
> umbrella of sociolinguistics, such as Robin Lakoff and Debra
> Tannon (sp?), especially trying to make explicit the 
> difference between communications in person and over media 
> (Lakoff) and male/female communicative differences, including
> usage and interpretation of body language (Tannon).

Interesting. I've never read (Robin) Lakoff, but I've read
(George) Lakoff... who I believe is her husband? Either way,
they're both on faculty at Berkeley.

Cool convo.



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