Aur-Och: The Origins of Speech and Gesture: An Interdisciplinary, Multimedia Project

《Aur-Och：语音和手势的起源》是一个光盘和互联网的混合体。它是由PROLARTI开发的：布朗大学的语言-艺术界面项目。它旨在为当代教育中的三个明显问题提供解决方案：(1)学术中科学和人文之间日益扩大的差距--一个具有理论后果的问题；(2)视觉数据在人类行为研究中的从属地位，不仅在科学领域，而且具有讽刺意味的是，在人文科学和社会科学中也是如此--一个认识论后果的问题；(3)内容不足的多媒体的迅速增长--一个具有教学后果的问题。PROLARTI对AUR-OCH的目标是理论、认识论和教育学。AUR-OCH将围绕以下中心理论和教学问题展开：我们可以通过共同研究语言和手势--视觉和语言、象征性和象征性的交流系统--从总体上了解人类交流的什么？语音在交流中扮演着什么角色？身体的其他部分扮演着什么角色？当声音不起作用或不能起作用时，身体扮演什么角色？来自不同科学(社会和生活)以及人文科学的方法论、数据和理论如何帮助我们理解言语和手势的总体交流品质、它们的生物学必需品、它们的进化起点、它们的文化成分、它们的神经构成、它们的美学维度？在介绍材料时，Aur-Och将利用新的光盘和互联网技术。它不是特定于课程，而是将被建模为多媒体《大部头书》的电子图书馆。这些书籍将由开放式实验室、教程、经典实验、课本、讲座、简介和讨论(辩论和对话)组成。希望AUR-OCH将吸引全国广大大学生和教师以及其他学习社区的受众。Aur-Och计划在1998年进行课堂测试版测试。最终的1.0版将紧随其后，等待进一步的赞助。

"Aur-Och: The Origins of Speech and Gesture" is the title of a CD ROM-Internet hybrid. It is being developed by PROLARTI: The Project on the Language-Art Interface at Brown University. It aims to offer a solution to three distinct problems in contemporary education: (1) the widening gap between the sciences and humanities in the academy--a problem with theoretical consequences; (2) the subordination of visual data in the study of human behavior, not only in the sciences but, ironically, in the humanities and social sciences, as well--a problem with epistemological consequences; (3) and the rapid growth of content deficient multimedia--a problem with pedagogical consequences. PROLARTI's goals for Aur-Och are theoretical, epistemological and pedagogical. The central theoretical and pedagogical questions around which Aur-Och will be developed are the following: What can we learn about human communication generally by studying speech and gesture together -- communication systems that are visual and verbal, iconic and symbolic? What role does the voice play in communication? What role does the rest of the body play? What role does the body play when the voice does not or cannot play a role? How might the methodologies, data, and theories from the various sciences (social and life) as well as the humanities help us to understand the totality of speech-and-gesture's communicative qualities, their biological necessities, their evolutionary beginnings, their cultural components, their neurological constitution, their aesthetic dimensions? In presenting the material, Aur-Och will exploit the new CD ROM and Internet technologies. Rather than be course specific, it will be modeled as an electronic library of multimedia "tomes". These tomes will consist of open-ended laboratories, tutorialq, classic experiments, texts, lectures, profiles and discussions (debates and dialogues). It is hoped that Aur-Och will appeal to a broad national audience of university/college students and profe ssors as well as to other learning communities. Aur-Och is scheduled for classroom beta-testing in 1998. A final version 1.0 will follow, pending further sponsorship.