[xmca] Body expression as sign.

[Joseph Gilbert <joeg4us@roadrunner.com>]

Let us remember that spoken-word language is composed of sounds made  
by the body, sounds that issue forth as expressions of emotions and  
that cause hearers bodies to assume patterns of motion analogous to  
those in the generators of the sounds. Thereby motion and emotion are  
transferred from originators to receivers. It is that sense of  
emotion, that we experience by our spoken words, that provides us  
with a sense of meaning. Our own emotion is the bottom line of our  
sense of meaning. Things have meaning only in as much, and in how,  
they affect us. And our emotions are the way we experience effects.  
Our words deal in the currency of meaning - our emotions - , and they  
refer to things. Because of this dual nature, words - the very things  
that identify things - inform us of the meaning of our world simply  
by affecting our emotions with their sounds. Since we are normally  
preoccupied with the referential aspect of words, it is  
subconsciously that we experience their emotional effects.

		Joseph Gilbert
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