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Phonolocation.

Jun 7, 2025

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ahem, cough, echolocation, face mask, forced sneezing, nose picking, Parallel Thalamocortical Pathways for Echolocation and Passive Sound Localisation in a Gleaning Bat Antrozous pallidus, phonolocation, pseudo-conversation, rhinotillexis, sounding out

Phonolocation is the use of laryngeal sounds to locate oneself in the world. Throat clearances and coughs signal one’s attentive presence, and any response indicates the likelihood of immediate contact with the responder. Phonolocation, forced sneezes, face masks and nose picking, that is rhinotillexis, can be used to keep philistinism and pseudo-conversation at a distance.
Camouflage, mimicry and crypsis.

Jul 30, 2024

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adult-centred, adultcentrism, automimicry, Batesian, Batesian mimicry, camouflage, crypsis, deimatic, deimatic display, dishonest signals, engagement, face mask, Fear in animals: a meta-analysis and review of risk assessment, forced sneezing, harassment, hassle, honest signals, marriage, Müllerian mimicry, mimicry, nose picking, phonolocation, pseudo-conversation, rhinotillexis

Camouflage, mimicry and crypsis are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, and are used by children who feel insecure. A sibling who feels vulnerable may mimic a sibling who appears less vulnerable. Children condition adults. Adolescent inebriety may be a deimatic display or, if persistent, Batesian mimicry. For an adult, survival in a hostile environment requires…
Intimation.

Jul 28, 2024

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affectations, aggressive mimicry, All the world’s a stage, anger, anthropomorphism, anxiety, apocrine glands, askance, autism, bluster, body image, body language, Botox smile, bradypnoea, C-tactile nerves, calculus, Clever Hans, cosmetics, CT nerves, disarm, dissemble, dissimulate, distract, distraction, double take, dry mouth, Duchenne, eye contact, faeces, fear sweat, film stars, fingernails, flannel, folding of the arms, fragrance, gender differences, gesticulations, hum, human parasite, humming, intimation, jaw clench, jury service, lip-reading, lower face smile, mannerisms, mendacity, mint, mirror lenses, Mona Lisa, more to this than meets the eye, Morphological variants of silent bared-teeth displays have different social interaction outcomes in crested macaques (Macaca nigra), nervous sweating, non-verbal, nose picking, nostril flares, nostril wrinkles, On The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, peppermint, perfume, personal space, Poisson distribution, pregnant pause, quiver, Revealing the structure of information flows discriminates similar animal social behaviours, rhetoric, rhinotillexis, seduction, Sharing the motivation to play: the use of signals in adult bonobos, shrug, shrug of the shoulders, shrugging, sidelong, signal-to-noise-ratio, sniffing, stress sweat, subliminal stimuli, suspension of disbelief, synapse, tachypnoea, tattoos, the Pons test, tight clothing, tremor, unconscious antithesis, urine, visual imagery, whistle, whistling, yawning

Intimation qualifies verbalisation, so that a particular content may be given emphasis by searching eyes, widening of the eyes, narrowing of the eyes, blinking, pupillary dilatation, unfocused eyes, lachrymosity, change of eye contact, glances, staring, wrinkling of the skin between the eyes, wrinkling of the skin around the eyes, nostril flares, nostril wrinkles, nose picking,…
Conversation.

Jul 28, 2024

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A comparative study on parental language used by parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and typically developing children, acting, aggressive mimicry, anxiety carrier state, arousal, avoidance, Bill Shankly, biological advantage, bluster, child, children, circumlocution, clear the head, CNV, competitiveness, contingent negative variation, conversation, conversational narcissism, conversational turns, deception, Doppler effect, ensonification, errors of judgement, errors of judgment, face mask, flannel, forced sneezing, genetic causes of autism, genetic causes of schizophrenia, Gilbertian mimicry, human host, human parasite, implicature, interview technique, irritability, jitter, loneliness, malfeasance, misrepresentation, mobile phone, monologue, mutual regression, Nash equilibrium, networking, nose picking, obsessionality, pets, phonolocation, plausible deniability, pregnant pause, prevarication, pseudo-conversation, regression., rhinotillexis, risks of autism, risks of schizophrenia, seduction, self-reassurance, self-stimulation, sexual promise, shift response, sleep, soliloquy, stimulus-independent thought, support response, the centre of attention, The cortical generators of the contingent negative variation in humans: a study with subdural electrodes, the sound of her own voice, the sound of his own voice, the sound of one’s own voice, thinking out loud, tit for tat, verbiage

Conversation normally starts with an alerting signal, so as to engage the attention of the intended collocutor. Absence of the alerting signal conveys that this is not going to be a conversation. Conversation normally includes listening pauses, the absence of which indicates that this is not a conversation: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”…

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