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Faces challenge the sender-receiver model as the major scheme of thought for appropriately understanding interaction between human individuals. The openness and indeterminacy of faces lead to establish a semiotically relevant distinction between interaction and interactivity. The latter is our proposed articulation of the dynamic energy that thrives through the existence of signs and the uses of a semiotics. Facial expressions sustain and express the vital dynamism of making meaning in life. This often occurs at a bewildering distance to legal life and discourses established by legal terminologies.
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Broekman, J.M. Face to Face (II): Semiotics of Interactivity. Int J Semiot Law 23, 41–48 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-009-9129-1
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