Re: gesturing language
| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 20:12 |
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Eve Sweetser has done a lot of work on gesture, though I can't�think of anything
specific off
hand...��-David�*******************************************************************�"sunly
eleSkarez ygralleryf ydZZixelje je ox2mejze."�"No eternal reward will forgive
us now for wasting the dawn."��-Jim
Morrison��http://dedalvs.conlang.org/��On Jan 21, 2009, at 1∞18 AM,
Njenfalgar wrote:��> Hello�>�> I've long been intrigued by gesturing
language (nodding, shaking�> head and�> that kind of things) and its
differences between different�> cultures. Now�> I've just returned from
Vietnam, and I had some first-hand�> experience there�> on the differences
of gesturing language between there and here.�> The first�> time I took an
intercity bus, I asked people if we had arrived�> already, and�> they all
waved their hands. Someone had the presence of mind to�> also answer�>
verbally, so that I could understand it, and finally I figured out�> it
means�> plain no. It has sparked my interest anew, and so I was wondering�>
if anybody�> had some resources or ready knowledge to be shared about it?
Stuff a�> naturalistic conlanger would be interested in, like why is
shaking�> head�> nearly universal (even in Vietnam it is understood the
same way as in�> Belgium), and shaking the hand is not...�>�> Greets�>
David�>�> --�> Idustvok va yentelkvil gifpir, puk gifpir, ivan kitil.�