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Non-Verbal Communication in Ancient Rome: Eyebrow Gestures
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[eng] This article analyses the communicative power of eyebrows in ancient Rome within the framework of broader research into gestures from the same period. Our research uses the corpus of Latin literature to describe evidence of gestures in said texts. It then identifies the expressions used by the authors to refer to them and describes how they were performed. Moreover, by analysing the context, it explains the meanings the authors attribute to them. Although the texts do not describe these gestures with the precision required by non-verbal communication research today, our analysis of the selected extracts has enabled us to identify four free eyebrow gestures—contracting, raising, relaxing, and lowering—and associate a meaning to them. In this regard, we have uncovered that Roman writers introduce eyebrow gestures in their work to communicate emotions such as arrogance and humility, and anger or seriousness, and even to identify certain characters. In turn, these gestures are also used to express disapproval and assent in place of speech.
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FORNÉS PALLICER, M. antònia, PUIG RODRÍGUEZ-ESCALONA, Mercè. Non-Verbal Communication in Ancient Rome: Eyebrow Gestures. _Languages_. 2024. Vol. 9, núm. 1-18. [consulta: 25 de febrer de 2026]. ISSN: 2226-471X. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/217295]