Four NYU grad students came to instruct our faculty in cultural sensitivity in a day long training last week. Fortunately, none of the faculty had much to do since it was the end of the year. Just kidding. But one of the grad students, Tanya Leslie, was excellent, and she was the one I got to […]
These two articles make me think that gesturing in TPRS may be underrated. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071104191551.htm http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/004434.html
I’ve always wondered what language represents. I was told in college that words are symbols, like the word chair is a symbol for a chair, or the word liberty is a symbol for what we think of as freedom. Something like that. When I hear the word chair I think of the thing. I image
