THE MYSTERIOUS SPACE IN WHICH THEY LIVE, MOVE, AND HAVE THEIR BEING

It is all around you and yet you cannot see it. It is in every conversation, and yet you mostly do not hear it. That is, you do not see and hear it unless you have been trained to. I’m speaking about what will seem mysterious to those who do not know about it—semantic space.

What is semantic space? It is the physical space in front of and around a person in which that person projects his pictures and representations. It is the physical movements, gestures, and pointing in which she attributes meaning to these actions and their referents. What is normally just space, just movement, and just a gesture becomes semantic in nature when a person constructs or responds to such from his or her set of meanings. Now that space is loaded with meaning.