A Biosemiotic Analysis of Braille |
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Authors: | Louis J Goldberg Liz Stillwaggon Swan |
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Institution: | (1) Ontology Research Group, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences, Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dental Medicine, Squire Hall, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA;(2) Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University, 811 S.W. Jefferson Avenue, Corvallis, OR 97333-4506, USA |
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Abstract: | A unique aspect of human communication is the utilization of sets of well-delineated entities, the morphology of which is
used to encode the letters of the alphabet. In this paper, we focus on Braille as an exemplar of this phenomenon. We take
a Braille cell to be a physical artifact of the human environment, into the structure of which is encoded a representation
of a letter of the alphabet. The specific issue we address in this paper concerns an examination of how the code that is embedded
in the structure of a Braille cell is transferred with fidelity from the environment through the body and into the Braille
reader’s brain. We describe four distinct encoding steps that enable this transfer to occur. |
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