Conf=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9rence_?=Myriam Vermeerbergen, Paris, 20/02/12

[Jean-Louis Aroui]

L'UMR 7023 a le plaisir de vous convier, dans le cadre des séances de son
séminaire (http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/-Seminaire-de-l-UMR-7023,50-.html),

le lundi 20 février 2012
9h30-11h30,
C.N.R.S., 59 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris (métros : Guy Moquet ou Brochant,
ligne 13),  salle 159

à une conférence de Myriam Vermeerbergen (Université Catholique de Louvain)

intitulée

« Comparing Aspects of Simultaneity in Flemish Sign Language to Instances
of Concurrent Speech and Gesture »

Résumé :

This presentation explores the possible parallels between different forms
of manual simultaneous constructions in sign languages and concurrent
speech and gesture in spoken languages. One example is the use of pointing
signs/gestures: a signer producing a pointing sign with one hand while the
other hand articulates a series of other signs as compared to a speaker
using co-speech pointing gestures.
>From the gesture research it becomes clear that gestures are an integral
part of linguistic communication. Apparently, speakers must gesture when
they speak and they primarily use the manual channel to do so. In sign
languages, ‘speech’ moves from the mouth to the hands. In theory four
possibilities arise from this: (1) gesture disappears, (2) gesture and
‘speech’ trade places, resulting in the manual articulators producing the
linguistic component and the mouth producing the gestural component of a
message, (3) gesture and sign become integrated, (4) gesture and sign
co-exist in the manual modality.
Both in the gesture literature and the sign linguistics literature, the
general idea seems to be that in sign languages, gesture either moves away
from the manual channel and/or (partly) loses its true gestural character
and becomes part of or integrated in the linguistic system. Both options
are discussed in this presentation. However, I also explore the possible
presence of (‘non-integrated’) gesture in the manual production of
signers. This issue is approached by a comparison of (1) simultaneous
constructions in sign languages, as exemplified by Flemish Sign Language,
with (2) various, possibly comparable, types of speech combined with
gesture. This comparison reveals many more similarities than expected,
both in form and function, and invites to re-examine gesture in sign
languages.


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Jean-Louis AROUI
Université Paris 8
UFR des Sciences du Langage
2, rue de la liberté
93200 Saint-Denis
FRANCE
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/-Aroui-Jean-Louis-.html

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