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Insultar con gestos en la Roma antigua y hoy

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This paper deals with the use of some emblemes (i.e., gestures which, in a certain culture, have an inequivocal verbal equivalent) in classical Rome and their survival in the present time. We specifically study emblems which express ridicule and insult. Six gestures are analized; four of them were already used in Rome as mocking or insulting gestures (imitating the stork, the ears of an ass, sticking out the tongue and extending the middle finger); furthemore, two gestures have been included that were used in the Roman Antiquity but did not have the mocking meaning that they convey nowadays (the horn-sign and the fig-sign).

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Comunicació no verbal, Llatí, Pragmàtica (Lingüística)

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Nonverbal communication, Latin language, Pragmatics

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FORNÉS PALLICER, M. Antònia and PUIG RODRÍGUEZ-ESCALONA, Mercè. Insultar con gestos en la Roma antigua y hoy. Minerva. Revista de Filología Clásica. 2005. Vol. 18, num. 137-151. ISSN 0213-9634. [consulted: 12 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/110011

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