And, what if signs are triadic relations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every ecology and environment is perfused with signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plus, once the southern apes are on their feet, their hands are free for talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then, southern apes hand-talk while cooperating with one another on team activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Culture is perfused with signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
0129 The authors offer another warning. Runaway natural selection can occur. Consider the utter uselessness of the beautiful and eye-catching tail of the male peacock. Yes, it is useless except for one problem. The female peacocks are impressed by big, beautiful, eye-catching displays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is the runaway character of talk<\/em> similar to the runaway character of the peacock’s tail<\/em>… or should I say?… the peacock hen’s expectations<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0130 Speech is added as adornment to hand talk at the start of our own species, Homo sapiens<\/em>. Perhaps, sexual selection is involved. Perhaps not. Why? The adornment of speech<\/em> adds a strange semiotic ingredient,<\/em> a spice, so to speak, to the semiotics of hand talk<\/em>. Without letting go of the iconic and indexal character of hand talk, speech adds a symbolic richness,<\/em> as if the gestural words are distinct from one another, not because of habit, but because they are wrapped in distinct envelopes of formant frequencies. Each hand talk word images and indicates a referent that can be pictured or pointed to. But, the addition of speech as an adornment<\/em> adds a situational expression<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0131 A situational expression?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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