27 July 2024

Misunderstanding Paralanguage As An Expression-Only Semiotic System

Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022: 94):

In our social semiotic model, rather than classifying gestures into types, we are concerned with degrees of convergence between gestures and discourse semantic entities, occurrences, qualities – that is, degrees of ideational concurrence.


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[1] To be clear, here once again, the authors remind the reader that Cléirigh's model is now their model. The plagiarism in this work is effected through myriad small steps.

[2] Again, here the authors repeat their misunderstanding of paralanguage as an expression-only semiotic system that realises ("converges with") the content of language. This misunderstanding invalidates their model, since content and expression are the basic requirement of all semiotic systems, which includes paralanguage.

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