கலித்தொகையில் மொழி சாரா செய்திப்பரிமாற்றம்

Abstract

To live as part of society, an individual needs to communicate. In the earliest times, before language emerged, human beings conveyed their messages to those around them through sounds, the ringing of bells, the beating of drums, smoke signals, fire-arrows shot into the sky, colours, gestures and calling out. Over time they learned to communicate through language. The forerunner of every instrument of communication is the human body itself, with its movements and its expressions of emotion (meyppāṭu). This article examines, through these, the forms of non-verbal communication recorded in Kalittokai.

Keywords

• communication
• language
• meyppāṭṭiyal (the study of emotional expression)
• sound and light