Jay Lemke <JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Jay Lemke (JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU)
Thu, 31 Jul 97 13:09:41 EDT
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.
JAY LEMKE.
City University of New York.
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