Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id VAA26798 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:26:45 GMT Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:22:18 -0800 Message-Id: <200201162122.g0GLMIb14669@mail16.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [216.76.255.72] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Modes of transmission Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:29:20 -0500
> Re: Modes of transmission Wade Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu> memetics@mmu.ac.ukReply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 02:55 , Joe Dees wrote:
>
>> One comment to refute this: ASL (American Sign Language) is
>> communicated visually, verbal discourse is communicated
>> auditorily, and braille is communicated tactilely. All are
>> categorized under the communication mode, telling or saying.
>
>All also apparently reference to the language area of the brain.
>Is one communicating via something, or is one simply
>communicating, in the only way possible?
>
>Why are any of the modes of transmission anything more than
>sidebars to the discussion of communication?
>
>What is actually getting hit?
>
Perhaps we should call them communication methods, to avoid confusion with perceptual modes.
One wonders, though, if the language area of the brain has to be accessed to knap a handaxe in front of an interested audience (Demonstration/imitation method). I think most likely not.
>
>- Wade
>
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