Towards a Pragma-Semiotics of Ritual(ized) Gesture and Performance
This paper analyzes some ritual and performing phenomena from different cultures, by using a unifying pragma-semiotics approach, especially the speech acts theory. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1995) refers to the rites as a “paralanguage”. In our opinion, his taxonomy of ritual praxis is reducible to the di...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Arte, Individuo y Sociedad |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ARIS/article/view/58494 |