In Plautus Miles gloriosus, against the backdrop of a widespread tapestry of non-verbal gestures, poses and signals, it is possible to identify a true gestural and systemic gag built on the theme of the lovers’ kisses and embraces. The ‘gestural catchphrase’ is interweaved throughout the entire comedy: in this comedy, in other words, gestures offer the opportunity to develop not only single extemporanous solutions or circumscribed mimic scenes, but also a specific comedic thread that is structurally inherent in the essential drammaturgic developments of the double deception and its final denouement.

Pragmatics of gestural communication in Plautus: the lovers’ kiss in Miles Gloriosus

Renata Raccanelli
2023-01-01

Abstract

In Plautus Miles gloriosus, against the backdrop of a widespread tapestry of non-verbal gestures, poses and signals, it is possible to identify a true gestural and systemic gag built on the theme of the lovers’ kisses and embraces. The ‘gestural catchphrase’ is interweaved throughout the entire comedy: in this comedy, in other words, gestures offer the opportunity to develop not only single extemporanous solutions or circumscribed mimic scenes, but also a specific comedic thread that is structurally inherent in the essential drammaturgic developments of the double deception and its final denouement.
2023
978-3-949189-92-0
Plautus' Miles Gloriosus
non verbal communication, gesture
pragmatics of communication in comic context
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