How did affect slide into mimesis? Actually, I've been trying to think about
what gets 'left out' of a model of object-oriented activity, especially
semiotic activity. I was also in the middle of Eva's paper at the time, so I
was not aware of the way she accounted for the simultaneity of the 3 systems
she defined in x-list CMC. So, thinking about my own recurrent difficulties
'speaking up' here, and the premium placed on multilogical messaging, and
the analytical separation of community-building and multilogue, I was
pleased to hear from Victoria that she values/ responds more readily to the
personal messaging that leaks through/ announces itself than to the
primarily knowledge-building messages. I think these -- the 'personal', the
recognizable presence behind the words -- may be especially important to
some of us for gaining access to participant status in a multilogue.
Thanks to Bill P. for his very unmurky mention of inter-related issues of
addressivity/ identity/ & community. Addressivity invokes for me the mimetic
aspect of semiosis -- identity-building always in response to the other. So
the email medium / tool certainly does offer some interesting and
problematic possibilities....
Victoria's message has just appeared, so I'll stop here...
Judith
Judith Diamondstone (732) 932-7496 Ext. 352
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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