Sunday, September 12, 2010

Tmesis - Media example

http://www.tmesistheatre.com/physicalfest/Physical_fest_09.php


I found this to be an interesting media example to bring up. As the website shows it is 'temsis theatre'. Instead of separating a word and filling the gap in with another word to create a linguistic phenomenon the 'tmesis theatre' creates an actual image of a tmesis. For example there is one where two people are pulling away from each other yet creating a heart in between them. The gap that fills in between them is a heart. We fill in this gap that they create with a heart (because we see it as a heart) and logically will conclude that these two people are probably lovers of some sort.

I just thought this was an interesting different way of looking at what a tmesis is...

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