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Don Satz replies to Len Fehskens:
>>This is precisely the substance of my question. What kind of a language
>>is it that means one thing to one person and the opposite to another?
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>A flexible language? Verbal language can also often be misunderstood
>or interpreted in an opposite manner primarily because one language is
>covering multiple cultures. I've read that body language is the primary
>means of communication among people, and that can also lead to frequent
>misunderstanding. These things happen all the time. I don't see music
>as inhabiting some kind of special dysfunctional area concerning
>communication, and I still consider music to be a language in that
>it communicates to the listener.
How about the difference between "denotation" and "connotation?" As far
as I can tell, language depends on denotation much more than music does.
Hence, there are dictionaries of verbal language and none of music. Also,
if languages have a grammar (that is, you can describe how they mean,
rather than what they mean), what's the grammar of "body language?" I
strongly suspect that body language is a metaphor.
Steve Schwartz
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