When I told my wife about this experience, she raised an obvious question, “Were they really understanding the Greek, or just your gestures and the images?” This is a valid question, and it deserves a careful, well supported response. My day job is to administer a language acquisition pr...
Gestures—such as a raised hand for greeting or a wink for intimate agreement—are visible signs, but they are not writing in that they do not transcribe a linguistic form. Pictures, similarly, may represent events but do not represent language and hence are not a form of writing. But the...
Yet in tragedy the rift between seen and unseen truth acquires a more vivid representation through being enacted before our eyes, in the gestures and movements ofliving men in real space. In early Greek society the poet is a "master of truth," the speaker of a discourse that derives ...
He inferred this because his system was incompatible with the assumption of an absolute up and down. On the other hand, though, he gives the earth a shape intermediate between the disc of Thales and the sphere of the Pythagoreans. He regarded it as a short cylinder 'like the drum of a ...
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which help the reader understand the fundamental diVerences between the Greek and Jewish sacriWcial systems, and make more obvious the contrast between, on the one hand, two religions in the context of which animal sacriWce took place, and, on...
Languages 2023, 8, 7 3 of 19 Pantomime is the process of imitating and acting out and provides the possibility to convey several meanings solely through gestures and corporal movements. Although pantomime comes from the theater (Z˙ ywiczyn´ ski et al. 2018), it can be exploited during ...