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“I Showed Him an Open Hand, He Showed me a Fist”
Semiotic ReviewThis essay offers a multimodal performance analysis of a widely documented international folktale. The emergent unfolding of the tale plot, which turns on constrasting interpretations of a series of thematized gestures, illuminates the dynamic tension ...
Richard Bauman
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"Kinda like the folklore of its day": "Supernatural," fairy tales, and ostension
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010 This essay considers the use of folklore in the television series Supernatural: the show does not simply retell folk narratives, but performs them both diegetically and metatextually in a process known as ostension.
Catherine Tosenberger
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Visión y vigencia de los relatos narrados por los abuelos [PDF]
, 2015 Spa: La presente ponencia es el resultado de un proceso investigativo, en la población urbana y rural del municipio de Tota, sobre los relatos narrados por los abuelos, que permitió analizarlos a la luz de la teoría de la relevancia. Este modelo permitió
Suescún Cárdenas, Yolanda +1 more
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La partícula "eh" y la Teoría de la Relevancia: Un ejemplo de contenido procedimental
, 2003 The Relevance Theory poses that human communication is reached through the interaction of ostension and inference in search of relevance. And relevance is a comparative concept based on the relationship between an assumption given by the speaker and a ...
Ramírez Gelbes, Silvia +1 more
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 327-345, September 2026.ABSTRACT Philosophers often characterize perception as image‐like. There is little agreement, however, about what constitutes an imagistic or iconic representation. This article identifies five signature properties of iconic representations endorsed in the philosophical and scientific literature: item‐richness, feature‐richness, spatiotemporal ...
Jake Quilty‐Dunn
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Cultural animals : the role of ostensive signals in knowledge acquisition [PDF]
, 2019 Human cultures abound in arbitrary symbols and behaviors acquired effortlessly, mostly through social interactions. Here we explore how social aspects of an interaction (ostensive signals) affect the long-term memory of verbal and nonverbal information ...
Găluşcă, Cristina-Ioana
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The Cognitive Foundations of Teaching
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT The propensity to teach is vital to human cultural evolution and to our ecological dominance of the planet, but its cognitive foundations remain poorly understood. Traditional explanations argue that teaching hinges on particular cognitive pre‐requisites, such as Theory of Mind.
Matthew Lomas +4 more
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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 717-735, June 2026.ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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Newborn Infants Selectively Attend to Points That Refer to Objects
Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Recognizing that certain acts are communicative is a key requirement of the development of communicative skills. Newborn infants have been shown to selectively respond to certain ostensive cues, including mutual gaze and infant directed speech, supporting theories of the evolution of ostensive‐inferential communication. That said, no study has
Alessandra Geraci +4 more
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De paseo por las calles del centro histórico de Cartagena: Lo que narran las voces de los cocheros
, 2013 Tesis (Profesional en Lingüística y Literatura) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Programa de Lingüística y Literatura, 2013Cartagena de Indias es la ciudad turística de mayor importancia en el país y una de lasprincipales del ...
Burgos Ortega
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