The history of reflection on language is characterized by a singular ambiguity. For centuries, it has been carried on as if the existence of language and the cognitive-narrative capacities which derive from it were independently considered from the function that, on the other hand, founds and characterizes it, namely listening. We believe that the reason for this strangeness lies in the fact that there is no possible discourse on listening that does not lead to a discourse on the body, especially focusing on the body discourse of one's mother and her voice. On the contrary, this contribution aims to show that, in order to understand our history as talking and storytelling animals, it is important to reconstruct the specific journey that - in the course of both our phylogenesis and ontogenesis - the ear makes. It is, in fact, an organ already active in utero and on which, during our evolution, depends on both the emergence of the articulate voice and the bipedalism as well, as the posture par excellence of narration.
University of Calabria, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-0464-428X
Titolo del capitolo
La narrazione come 'testimonianza'. L’evoluzione dell’ascolto tra filogenesi e ontogenesi dell’orecchio
Autori
Donata Chricò
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0045-5.09
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
La narrazione come incontro
Curatori
Fabio Ciotti, Carmela Morabito
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
174
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0045-5
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0044-8
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0045-5
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0046-2
Collana
Moderna/Comparata
ISSN della collana
2704-5641
e-ISSN della collana
2704-565X