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    Call for papers - Language

    Brevity is the soul of wit

    Angles, French Perspectives on the Anglophone World

    For its inaugural issue, Angles: French Perspectives on the Anglophone World welcomes original proposals inspired by the celebrated aphorism: ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’. Often used to describe a literary and social form (humor or sarcasm) or to illustrate commonplaces, the dictum encapsulates beliefs about the relationship between ‘brevity’ and ‘wit’ which have numerous implications in different disciplines and forms of expression. The aphorism not only suggests that brevity is a gateway to revelatory truths, it also implies that true ‘wit’ exists only in shortened form, paradoxically positing depth of meaning (‘soul’) in brevity of form, and also hinting that humor loses its essence when explicated. Additional contradictions emerge when one recalls the context in which the line appears in Hamlet, when Polonius tires the audience by giving some words of wisdom to his departing son.

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  • Lyon

    Conference, symposium - Thought

    Being with animals

    "Man/animal" 4th interdisciplinary workshop

    Le présent colloque a deux objets : explorer l'apport de l'anthropologie à la compréhension de la relation Homme/Animal en le croisant avec la réflexion déjà amorcée sur geste, corps et langage ; participer au développement des recherches de terrain dans le domaine de la santé autour de la médiation animale et la relation d'aide assistée par l'animal. Ce dialogue interdisciplinaire s'inscrit dans une démarche de projet et de réseau autour des praxis reliant l'Homme et l'animal, notamment l'animal éduqué pour exercer un métier avec l'Homme, et aussi autour des liens structurels (biologiques, biomécaniques, sensorimoteurs, cognitifs) et sociétaux (interactionnels, sociaux, économiques et éthiques, environnementaux) entre Homme et animal.

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