ABSTRACT
This chapter provides conceptualization of the communicative repertoire that self has available to him or her, which constrains and stores what features get noticed and stored, and how these features are selected and combined and stored for potential reuse. It explores more fully two of communicative repertoire dimensions: those that embrace physical/technological modes and mediations. The chapter presents the space within the communicative repertoire in which the selecting and combining of features occurs in the creation of communicative acts as Multiplicity. It provides some of the issues associated with the perception and analysis of the sound stream in developing linguistic categories such as word or utterance and in moving from one set of normed sound behaviours to another. The chapter proposes the following elements of mediations: human body only, analogue, digital and digital control. Combinations of features within the dimensions of modes and mediations interact to enable communicative acts to occur.
