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``` Adam Kendon is a terrific guy ...
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 14:10:09 +0100
From: T.Matthew Ciolek
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About the GESTURE-L - a new forum on majordomo@coombs.anu.edu.au
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The GESTURE-L Forum was established to provide a world-wide communications vehicle and a central electronic archive for anyone working on, or interested in the study and documentation of gestures, gesture systems and alternate sign languages. This includes the study of the use of gesture or gesticulation in everyday conversations, formal or conventionalized gestures known as "emblems" or "quotable gestures", "gesture systems" such as have been described for work settings of various kinds (stock markets, race tracks, factories, and the like) and alternate sign languages, (sign languages used in hearing communities as an alternative to speech) such as those used among the Australian Aborigines, the Plains Indians of North America, in certain European monastries, and other groups. It is hoped that the Forum will make possible the development of a wide range of cultural and social comparisons in gesture use. The Forum begins operation without a moderator and is open to all, subject to subscription approval by the Listowner (see below).
The Forum is the joint initiative of the Coombs Computing Unit,
Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific and Asian Studies, The
Australian National University, and Dr Adam Kendon
Participants are free to join and leave the Forum at any time. All participants will be expected to maintain truly coherent, crisp and courteous styles of communication. Those who do not may be asked to leave the list.
TECHNICALITIES: 1) to join (subscribe to) the forum send e-mail
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to: majordomo@coombs.anu.edu.au message: subscribe gesture-l your e-mail address eg: subscribe gesture-l xyz@abacus.abc.edu.au
English is the preferred language of communication of this Forum. Contributions by forum members should be sent to: gesture-l@coombs.anu.edu.au
To contribute, you must have subscribed and been approved as a member of the list of contributors. Approval to join the Forum is a 'pro forma' operation, but subscription does permit some basic control of the contents of submissions by the list owner. Any submission to the forum is immediately broadcast to all subscribed members, and a copy automatically archived.
Anyone, whether a registered member or not, can electronically view and retrieve the communications to the forum using a database 'ANU-Gesture-L' accessible through the standard WAIS software and through the ANU's COOMBSQUEST Social Sciences and Humanities Information Facility gopher running on the coombs.anu.edu.au, port 70 as well as on the cheops.anu.edu.au, port 70 machines.
Bibliographic information is always welcome and such contributions, if submitted, will be archived on in the Coombspapers Social Sciences Research Data Bank at ANU available by ftp/gopher access on the coombs.anu.edu.au (port 70) system.
LIST OWNER:
Dr Adam Kendon
NETWORKING SUPPORT:
Dr T.Matthew Ciolek
15 April 1994
with many regards,
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Dr T. Matthew CIOLEK tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au Coombs Computing Unit, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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