A Nice Gesture

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Posted on August 23rd, 2009 under YouTube Faves, academia, semiotics, sign language, sign language storytelling Indian history. Tags: armand, david, deaf, for, hollow, imbruglia, interpretive, johan, johann, karaoke, lincolnshep, lippowitz, men, mime, natalie, shep, the, torn. Comments: None

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Posted on July 10th, 2009 under Healthcare, Insults and Vulgarity, Robots, YouTube Faves, semiotics, social robotics. Tags: artificial, autonomous, intelligence, localization, mapping, navigation, nurse, rescue, Robot, SLAM. Comments: None

[email] Hi Jeroen,
Happened upon your blog. Thought you might enjoy this paper on a proposed iconic-gestural origin of language. Or perhaps another of the publications [from SEDSU].
All the best,
Tomas Persson

Frontpage illustration from the paper.
Well, I checked it out and for all those interested in evolution it might be nice to do the same. The paper’s [...]

Posted on September 27th, 2007 under body language, evolution, gestural origin, mimesis, semiotics. Comments: None

I am running an experiment on the acceptability of variation in sign language. One of the things that touch upon this matter is sign wellformedness, which supposes a certain sign language phonology with rules that tell whether a sign is wellformed or not. I am not done thinking that one over but it did get [...]

Posted on July 12th, 2007 under gesture, semiotics, wellformedness. Comments: 1

I just found out that there is a trashcore (?) band called Obscene Gesture.

Don’t they look all tough and mean? (source)
And then that menacing gesture that is just ‘disgusting to the senses’, and/or ‘repulsive by reason of crass disregard of moral or ethical principles’.

These men-boys will have to watch out for the [...]

Posted on June 18th, 2007 under Insults and Vulgarity, finger, insult, semiotics. Comments: None

My brother in law Coen sent me a link to a YouTube video about a digital drawing board: It raises a nice question: Is sketching gesturing? Two easy answers: Yes, it falls under gesture because it is movement that is intended to communicate (or movement that expresses intention. No, it is different because it [...]

Posted on December 11th, 2006 under Scratching Surfaces, gesture semiotics, semiotics. Comments: 1

More important than politics, semiotics, science and art is of course… cricket. The noble game of hitting a ball and running back and forth dominates the lives of countless anglophiles throughout the former commonwealth.
Men will be boys? (source)
And now it appears that Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq made an insulting gesture to umpire Darrell Hair, [...]

Posted on October 3rd, 2006 under semiotics. Comments: None

Come and travel with me
Fly with me to Neverland
Peter Pan will come for us

Just think your happy thoughts
Oh and of course a bit of pixie dust
From the one and only
Tinkerbell

My kids just got the old Disney version of Peter Pan and are loving it. And so do I. What a lovely story about fantasy and [...]

Posted on September 30th, 2006 under semiotics. Comments: 2

Are both sign language and gestures best defined in terms of what they should look like?
Reading in Crasborn’s (2001) thesis always gives me plenty to think about. One thing struck me yesterday. The emphasis placed on perception in the modeling of sign language. I read the same before in a review by Sara Fortuna of [...]

Posted on September 24th, 2006 under semiotics. Comments: None