Alice’s Adventures andProxemics – a PossibleApproach

In E. T. Hall’s theory on proxemics, space is perceived in light of the way in which human beings use it as a specific cultural product. We intend to analyze the way in which Lewis Carroll’s Alice engages herself in the discovery of new worlds from this perspective. Two important directions are open...

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Main Author: Rodica Gabriela Chira
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Published: "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia 2018-11-01
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description In E. T. Hall’s theory on proxemics, space is perceived in light of the way in which human beings use it as a specific cultural product. We intend to analyze the way in which Lewis Carroll’s Alice engages herself in the discovery of new worlds from this perspective. Two important directions are opened: the different levels of proximity between characters, alluding to different social relationships and categories such as children and parents, children and adults in general, hierarchy; communication on different levels: who addresses to whom and in which context; the objectives of the message – transmitting something or creating connections; differences in our ways of organizing ideas/ arguments and the way in which we communicate them (inductively or deductively); which are, according to cultures, the codes of non verbal communication – paralanguage, gestures, silence… (Sauquet&Vielajus 2014: 355-368). Since in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” these two directions are exploited through sophisticated logic and pure fantasy intermingled with social satire the results of an analysis could be an invitation to re-readings of these most instructive and interesting texts.
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