From Talking Heads to Communicating Bodies: Cybersemiotics and Total Communication

From Talking Heads to Communicating Bodies: Cybersemiotics and Total Communication

Current linguistics is biased towards considering as object of scientific study only verbal language, i.e., ordinary language whose basic entities are words, sentences, and texts. By having this focus, the crucial non-verbal semiotic contributions from acts of bodily communication are left out of co...

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Main Author: Ole Nedergaard Thomsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-03-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
Cybersemiotics
Peircean(bio-) semiotics
autopoiesis
cybernetics
functional linguistics
biolinguistics
pragmatics
InterPragmatics
verbal communication
bodily communication
gesture
total communication
communicative competence
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/3/390/

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