Re: Some thoughts on mutli-modal (signing / speech) languages and communication.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:24, Sai Emrys <saizai@...> wrote:
> On the written + spoken multimodality:
>
> This occurs all the time - it's called "a professor with horrible handwriting".
>
> They say what they write when they psuedo-write it, which (as it were)
> defines what the abstract symbol on the board is to mean. :-)
Is this really multimodal communication? In the sense that the writing
on the board conveys information not present in the speech?

Your example sounds to me like pure oral communication, with the
writing being incidental but not part of the communication.

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>