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Words, gestures, brains and caves. Remarks on the material bases of language
No full textIn this paper, I reconsider a number of crucial moments of modern and contemporary investigations of language, mind and brain, focusing on the grow- ing understanding of the material bases of language. I first question the view that the notion of language as grounded on the body and social interaction is a result of Darwinism and point out that such view is rooted in modern philos- ophy, from Descartes to the Enlightenment. I also argue that, even in post-Dar- winian thought, the critique of solipsism and the idea that linguistic meaning re- quires the whole body were developed independently of Darwinism. I point out that the neural correlates of linguistic comprehension, linguistic production and writing have been long separated in neuroscience and neuropsychology. On this background, in the concluding section, I examine the problem of the separation and interdependence of orality and writing
Anthony Grafton - Megan Williams, Come il cristianesimo ha trasformato il libro. Edizione italiana a cura di Lucio Del Corso e Laura Lulli
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Ariadne and Her Companions
No full textIl lavoro approfondisce il programma figurativo di una kylix a figure rosse del Foundry Painter, che reca, tra l'altro, la scena dell'abbandono di Arianna da parte di Teseo, evidenziando come il tema sia trattato secondo una prospettiva che ne rovescia la prospettiva canonica
The gynaecological and nosolgical treatises of the Corpus Hippocraticum: the tip of an iceberg
No full textManagement of sulphur fertiliser to improve durum wheat production and minimise S leaching
No full textOptimisation of S release from decomposing soil organic matter and S fertiliser related to plant S uptake is a central issue and goal in applied research in agricultural systems. Two lysimeter experiments were conducted in central Italy in two subsequent seasons on two commercial durum wheat cultivars to investigate the effects on yield, S and N uptake and leaching of different rates of N and S fertilisers, soil type and split applications of S. Sulphur fertiliser increased grain yield and N and S uptake of both varieties. Grain yield increase was mainly due to an increase of the number of kernels per spike, which was interpreted as a stimulation of the initiation of spikelets and/or florets, or to a reduction the floret mortality. As an average of the two seasons, S leaching during wheat cycle was 35 kg S ha−1. Sulphur fertiliser rate increased S concentration in drainage water and consequently S leached during wheat cycle. Compared to unfertilised control, S leached was by 13 kg ha−1 higher at 60 kg S ha−1 and by 19 kg ha−1 higher at 120 kg S ha−1. The splitting of sulphur fertiliser during crop cycle modified both grain yield and S leaching. The highest grain yield and S plant uptake was obtained with the splitting of S rate into 60 kg S ha−1 before seeding and 60 kg S ha−1 at stem elongation and the lowest amount of S lost by leaching occurred with the application of 36 kg S ha−1 before seeding and 84 kg S ha−1 at stem elongation. Sulphur output was equally accounted for by leaching and plant uptake. The input–output balance of S was positive in both experiments only when the higher S rate was applied, as more S was imported than removed. Thus, no substantial S deficit may be expected in short term, provided that high S fertiliser rate is applied and the availability of S is synchronised with plant needs
To Speak Like a Bird: Beyond a Literary Topos
Full text linkThe idea that poets can understand and imitate the birds’ voice is much more than a literary topos. In this paper an anthropological approach and the theory of inconscious formulated by Ignacio Matte Blanco cast a new light on the ancient Greek sources that provide important evidence on the topic (Alcman, Hesiod and Aristotle in primis). Poets can understand the language of the birds because they are special gifted men, like seers and prophets. The interesting history of Wakdjûnkaga the trickster demonstrates that these maîtres de verité can experience in everyday life what was common to all human beings during the prehistoric Age
Rethinking Orality II. The Mechanisms of the Oral Communicative System. The case of the Epos in Archaic Greece
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