signalslinguistic
Signalslinguistic is a proposed interdisciplinary field that studies signals used in human communication from a linguistic perspective. It focuses on how signals—whether vocal, gestural, facial, textual, or digital—encode information, how receivers interpret them, and how context, culture, and cognitive processing shape signal meaning.
The term can be used to describe research that intersects linguistics, semiotics, and information theory, examining
Key concepts include signal, encoding, decoding, redundancy, reliability, context, ambiguity, multimodality, and the distinction between signaling
Methods used in signalslinguistic research include corpus studies of signals in natural language, perception experiments, multimodal
Applications span the design of user interfaces, assistive technologies, cross-cultural communication, marketing, and education, where understanding
Status and scope: signalslinguistic is not yet a standardized subdiscipline in linguistics, but rather a descriptive
See also: semiotics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, multimodal communication, information theory, signaling theory.