language
Relativismo linguistico versus relativismo culturale: fra l’estetica di Benedetto Croce e l’antropologia di Edward Sapir
By: ALESSANDRA SIGNORILE – The following pages take their cue from Edward Sapir’s contributions to linguistic research, starting with his reference to Benedetto Croce’s theories (Language. An introduction to study of speech, 1921). The reasons for a possible comparison between the two authors will be explored in depth, firstly emphasising the main points of convergence…
Interaction and communication abilities in a multicultural crew simulating living and working habits at Mars Desert Research Station
By: CAROLE TAFFORIN, FRANCISCO GINER ABATI – Future interplanetary crewmembers will be micro-societies like autonomous and auto-organized systems far from the Earth. They will have to live and work together in small habitat units as it is simulated at Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah, USA. Missions become longer and the multi-national heterogeneity of…
The Perception of Color and The Meaning of Brilliance Among Archaic and Ancient Populations and Its Reflections on Language
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Introduction; Yellow-blue and red-green; Radiant-not radiant, appearance, skin, hair and surface; The blue-green problem; Green stones: jadeite, nephrite, serpentinite…; An aesthetics of color and brilliance? ; Sources of natural colors; Purple and purple; Hebrew textiles, Phoenician porpores and biblical blues; The colors of the Greeks; Blue, glass and faience pottery; Color…