... , drink, and stay longer. If a guest is given a cup filled with a beverage, this means that the host is telling the guest to hurry up, drink this full cup, and leave. Therefore, in order to show hospitality, the hosts in Uzbekistan offer their guests a half-cup of a beverage, meaning that if the guests wish more, they are welcome to stay and drink as much as they please ... stories, an examination of a scene from Homer's Iliad follows. The first element is the arrival of a visitor, and Reece points out that the function of the visitor's arrival is to announce a hospitality scene (13). In...

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