[LMB] SP: TSK:B Chapter 17

[CatMtn at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/3/2007 4:26:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jparish at siue.edu writes:

CatMtn at aol.com wrote:
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>M:

Now  you've made me wonder if [Lakewalkers] use facial expressions when  
talking--if  
> the people they usually talk to are accustomed to  using grounds to 
understand  
> emotions, what would be the point  of frowning, smiling, or other facial  
> expressions, since the  person addressed would already know how they felt?  
 It would  
> make them seem inhumanly calm to most farmers, if  so.
Jim:
>Hmm. Do we know how early in life groundsense arises? Most  linguistic 
>traits - and I assume that would include paralinguistic  traits like facial 
>expressions and body language - are more or less set  pretty early on.
 
M:
 
I believe textev says groundsense usually arises in puberty.   However, I 
think "blindisms" can develop in people who have lost their  sight as young 
adults, and it would seem to me that this would be somewhat  similar.  Lakewalkers 
long on patrol, and unused to being around children  who needed the cues of 
facial expression, might develop the habit of not showing  emotion in a way that 
people without groundsense could understand.  
 
Mary



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