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Language may emerge as one of several specializations out of mimesis, understood as whole-body communication. Starting out from the idea of a mimetic stage as the precursor to language as first posited by Donald, and building on the observations on this notion made by Zlatev and Sonesson, we consider two recent proposals for rendering mimesis more specific. The first of these proposals, due to Żywiczyński, & Wacewicz, aims to narrow down mimesis to pantomime, of which they try to give a precise definition. While this proposal throws much light on what is involved, pantomime in this sense can, in the end, hardly be distinguished from (communicative) mimesis, given an appropriate definition. The other proposal, due to Ferretti et alia, suggests that narrative thinking is at the origin of both mimesis and language. We argue that, while narrativity builds on the specific character of human temporal cognition, the latter cannot become narrative without first being manifested by a semiotic resource.

"The greatest story ever told": Semiosis emerging from mimesis and/or narrativity