Sara Fortuna

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sara Fortuna is involved.

Article

Fortuna, Sara 2003 Gestural expression, perception and language: A discussion of the ideas of Johan Jakob Engel Gesture 3:1, pp. 95–124 | Article

This paper discusses J.J. Engel’s theory of mimicry, which is part of a broad discussion within German philosophy in late 1700 about physiognomics i.e. human bodily expression and perception. The core of Engel’s investigation consists in a theory of human gesture which avoid both the conventional… read more