The visual perception of the world in the modern western societies is offering just little sensuousness in everyday life: people circulate between short messages and facebook, legislative texts, e-mails and conventional correspondence with civil service institutions, youtube clips and tv images. For sure, people talk a lot, too: via the phone, in video chats, in the news. Even in the streets we are surrounded by sounds like music, babble of voices, traffic noise, and ring tones. Stimuli of human environment are multiplying with the variety of media we use. Though don’t they irritate our senses? Aren’t we inclined to distrust the single one, e.g. the sense of hearing? Or mustn’t we only believe in what can be seen? What role does language play in the way we perceive environmental influences? More…