biological mediation

Judy Diamondstone (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:25:44 -0400

Jay, can you say more about what you mean by
"mediational means from the biological point of view"?
-- a mediating system that would not be commensurate with
cultural-semantic categories?

Judith

>Returning to xmca after brief absence for a congress of
>functional linguistics in Toronto. Interesting work there on
>the semiotics of vocal sound (whether verbalizing or not), music,
>visual displays, gesture, etc. in functional integration with
>language. Unification also through the materiality of the signifying
>substance, including and especially the body-in-context. Also
>emphasis on themes of normal and abnormal childhood language and
>behavior (mother-child discourse and development, autism, schizophrenia,
>ADHD), leading to interesting questions about whether neurophysiological
>processes have any 'awareness' of cultural-semantic categories, and
>if not, what it would mean to describe mediational means from the
>biological point of view. To heal the Cartesian wound, both sides
>must knit. JAY.
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>JAY LEMKE.
>City University of New York.
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