On Wed, 29 May 2002 23:15:55 +0100, Artur Ferreira da Silva wrote:
My point was preciselly that one must understand the differences
between languages. And that we all are prisioners of what our native
language allows us (or condemns us) to think. And that someone that
only knows one language has a very big difficulty in what refers to
inter-culturality (if is not only one word and some "techniques" but
a practice). After all how can I show respect for the other if I am
imposing him (or them, as in international mediation) my language?
Basically also my opinion. I am an absolute fan of learning languages, although not very gifted. Brr!
Harrison gave examples of sucessful work in contexts where he understood nothing at the spoken language level.
So lets follow another idea
Language in its digitalized form is certainly fundamental in a world with lots of anonimous and long-distance communication.
But communication is more than spoken and written language.
Taking your prefered example. In our TV culture we should not underestimate the influence of Visual Messages. Bush speaks a lot in his way of jumping out of the pictures.
Now body language is interesting. There are language related/restricted elements. There are cultural area restricted elements. But there are some existencial/neurological elements. The basic ones.
In spoken language it is easy to lie
In superficial body language you need some training.
Actors have it.
In deeper body language you have to learn to put yourself into the adequate trance, inputting internally in a focused way on your neurologic-endocrinologic system.
Shamans could, modern trance and extasy experts can partially.
In basic body language nobody can, or only at the price of partial or complete self-destruction.
In extending and deepening these ideas I could perhaps find some non-conventional answers to the differences of "Open Space" in the different contexts (animal-physical encounters, e-list encounters, fone conference encounters, video-conference acounters).
Bernd
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