Second VENACO Workshop The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy September 16-20, 1991

Why to Enter into Dialogue is to Come out With Changed Speech: Cross-Linked Modalities, Emotion, and Language Shift

Sylvia Candelaria de Ram

Natural Language Research, Computing Research Lab, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA

Language in use is changing its form appears to be a universal principle. This changeability has far-reaching effects on our dialogues among ourselves and on how we maintain a communicating society (see Candelaria de Ram 1990). Whatever the genesis of the phenomenon, since it is an empirical fact, it must have an empirical cause.

• Is there something intrinsic to the process of using language forms that necessarily changes them?
• Since it is individuals who speak, and write, and gesture, the changes must be enabled within the psychobiological structure of the individual whose language changes.
• And it must have something to do with the interaction of individuals using language.

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Bibliographic reference.  Ram, Sylvia Candelaria de (1991): "Why to enter into dialogue is to come out with changed speech: cross-linked modalities, emotion, and language shift", In SMMD-1991, 129-132.