Replying to LO25223 --
Leo, satellite-group of OL explorers,
You are venturing into the heart of so many of my own querries. I have
returned recently from a seminar on Language, Cognition and Culture, where
I presented some of my own theories in these domains.
Your discussion excites me and I am delighted you have shared it with us
all. I am too overwhelmed at the moment with work (ahhh this ---- ever the
making of a living) to respond directly to the rich queries that have been
developed thus far through conversation as a "small satellite-group" of
the LO list . I want to be part of this dialogue, and part of me is
wishing that it could stay just a small satellite discussion --- but then
I would not have even known about it.
I am doing research on communication across cultures and looking at
non-verbal communication specifically, along with an emphasis on what I
refer to as "Aesthetic process". The seminar I attended adressed some of
the nitty gritty-linguistic nuances you have introduced in your e-mail,
and this a ponderous topic in and of itself.
For the sake of getting my arms around these subjects I tend to divide the
conversation about cognition, culture and language into two domains:
1) verbal/non-verbal
2) oral/written
My own interests are focused more on non-verbal and oral explorations,
since these can transcend (I believe) the artifices of linguistic
structures more readily. That is to say, if I don't speak a word of a
given language I still can communicate with you in a number of ways. So I
tend to think the written/verbal side of things causes more gaps across
cultures, and also reflects a bias of Euro-western cognition which
values/focuses on written/verbal communication over the ephemeral nature
of non-verbal/oral communication.
Enough said for the moment. please count me in on your explorations!
Bright blessings on a sultry summer afternoon,
Sajeela
PS -
Culturally speaking I am a "white" "American" fairly hetero-sexual woman
who was born and raised in 5 different countries in Latin America by a
Russian born and raised Jewish agnostic Father and an English/German/Irish
2nd generation agnostic American mother.
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:04:54 +0200 (MET DST) Leo Minnigh
<l.d.minnigh@library.tudelft.nl> writes:
> This community is multilingual and multicultural. Some of us have
> English
> as their mothertongue, lots of us don't, although we all communicate
> in
> English (at least we think so :-)).
--Sajeela M ramsey <sajeelacore@juno.com>
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