Ruce a svět: Merleau-Ponty, gesto a znakový jazyk

• Authors: Fulka Josef

Title variants

EN

Hands and World: Merleau-Ponty, Gesture and Sign Language

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In the present article, the author examines the relevance of Merleau-Ponty’s thought in the realm of gesture studies and sign language linguistics. Merleau-Ponty’s reflection on the gestural nature of language, as presented in Phenomenology of Perception, represents a remarkable starting point for both gesture studies and deaf studies, insofar as it stresses the interrelatedness of the subject, his or her gestural expression and the world the subjects inhabits. In the second part of the paper, examples are presented to support the central thesis: Jürgen Streeck’s research on gestures in the natural environment and the example of Kata Kolok, a Balinese village sign language, and its particular way of treating spatial relations and structures.

Keywords

CS

fenomenologická filosofie; gesta; lingvistika znakových jazyků; vesnické znakové jazyky

EN

gestures; phenomenological philosophy; sign language linguistics; village sign languages

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studie z aplikované lingvistiky - Studies in Applied Linguistics
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 43-52

Contributors

author

Fulka Josef

• Fakulta humanitních studií Univerzity Karlovy
• Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.