Deafness Gesture And Sign Language In The 18th Century French Philosophy

Author : Josef Fulka
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261489

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Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy by Josef Fulka Pdf

The book represents a historical overview of the way the topic of gesture and sign language has been treated in the 18th century French philosophy. The texts treated are grouped into several categories based on the view they present of deafness and gesture. While some of those texts obviously view deafness and sign language in negative terms, i.e. as deficiency, others present deafness essentially as difference, i.e. as a set of competences that might provide some insights into how spoken language works. One of the arguments of the book is that these two views of deafness and sign language still represent two dominant paradigms present in the current debates on the issue. The aim of the book, therefore, is not only to provide a historical overview but to trace what might be called a “history of the present”.

Author : Andrea Kárpáti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000930863

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Arts-Based Interventions and Social Change in Europe by Andrea Kárpáti Pdf

This book presents 23 successful arts-based efforts to respond to social problems experienced by disadvantaged communities. The arts are a powerful means of fighting discrimination, marginalisation, neglect and even poverty. The educational programmes described in these chapters help stakeholders find solutions which are research-based, adaptable, repeatable and sustainable. Social problems that are addressed in this book include children living with physical challenges; suffering from financial and educational poverty; elderly women suffering from solitude; migrants facing a strange and not always welcoming cultural context; Roma youth fighting negative stereotypes and many more. Revealing the interconnectedness between social, economic and cultural exclusion, contributors planned interventions to develop skills, strengthen identities and build communities. This book will be of interest to scholars working in the visual arts, art education, design education, drama and theatre education and museum pedagogy. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Author : Sophia A. Rosenfeld,Sophia Rosenfeld
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0804749310

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A Revolution in Language by Sophia A. Rosenfeld,Sophia Rosenfeld Pdf

What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? This book takes up that classic question by concentrating on changing conceptions of language and, especially, signs during the second half of the eighteenth century. The author traces, first, the emergence of a new interest in the possibility of gestural communication within the philosophy, theater, and pedagogy of the last decades of the Old Regime. She then explores the varied uses and significance of a variety of semiotic experiments, including the development of a sign language for the deaf, within the language politics of the Revolution. A Revolution in Language shows not only that many key revolutionary thinkers were unusually preoccupied by questions of language, but also that prevailing assumptions about words and other signs profoundly shaped revolutionaries' efforts to imagine and to institute an ideal polity between 1789 and the start of the new century. This book reveals the links between Enlightenment epistemology and the development of modern French political culture.

Author : Cornelia Müller,Alan Cienki,Ellen Fricke,Silva Ladewig,David McNeill,Sedinha Tessendorf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110261318

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Body - Language - Communication by Cornelia Müller,Alan Cienki,Ellen Fricke,Silva Ladewig,David McNeill,Sedinha Tessendorf Pdf

Volume I of the handbook presents contemporary, multidisciplinary, historical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of how body movements relate to language. It documents how leading scholars from differenct disciplinary backgrounds conceptualize and analyze this complex relationship. Five chapters and a total of 72 articles, present current and past approaches, including multidisciplinary methods of analysis. The chapters cover: I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter, II. Perspectives from different disciplines, III. Historical dimensions, IV. Contemporary approaches, V. Methods. Authors include: Michael Arbib, Janet Bavelas, Marino Bonaiuto, Paul Bouissac, Judee Burgoon, Martha Davis, Susan Duncan, Konrad Ehlich, Nick Enfield, Pierre Feyereisen, Raymond W. Gibbs, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Uri Hadar, Adam Kendon, Antja Kennedy, David McNeill, Lorenza Mondada, Fernando Poyatos, Klaus Scherer, Margret Selting, Jürgen Streeck, Sherman Wilcox, Jeffrey Wollock, Jordan Zlatev.

Author : Nina Timmermans,Council of Europe. Committee on the Rehabilitation and Integration of People with Disabilities
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789287157201

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The Status of Sign Languages in Europe by Nina Timmermans,Council of Europe. Committee on the Rehabilitation and Integration of People with Disabilities Pdf

The present report, based on information provided by member states' governments and by NGOs, gives an overview of the recognition of sign languages in 26 European states. It also summarises policies and programmes which have been developed by member states to ensure sign language users access to their political, social and cultural rights.

Author : Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691194509

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Silent Poetry by Nicholas Mirzoeff Pdf

This book explores the dynamic interaction between art and the sign language of the deaf in France from the philsopheRs to the introduction of the sound motion picture. Nicholas Mirzoeff shows how the French Revolution transformed the ancienT regime metaphor of painting as silent poetry into a nineteenth-century school of over one hundred deaf artists. Painters, sculptors, photographers, and graphic artists all emanated from the Institute for the Deaf in Paris, playing a central role in the vibrant deaf culture of the period. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and race science, however, the deaf found themselves categorized as "savages," excluded and ignored by the hearing. This book is concerned with the process and history of that marginalization, the constitution of a "center" from which the abnormal could be excluded, and the vital role of visual culture within this discourse. Based on groundbreaking archival and pictorial research, Mirzoeff's exciting and intertextual analysis of what he terms the "silent screen of deafness" produces an alternative hIstory of nineteenth-century art that challenges canonical view of the history of art, the inheritance of the Enlightenment, and the functions, status, and meanings of visual culture itself. Fusing methodologies from cultural studies, poststructuralism and art history, his study will be important for students and scholars of art history, cultural and deaf studies, and the history of medicine, and will interest a general audience concerned with the relationship of the deaf and the larger society. Nicholas Mirzoeff is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Edna Edith Sayers
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781512601411

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The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet by Edna Edith Sayers Pdf

Edna Edith Sayers has written the definitive biography of T. H. Gallaudet (1787-1851), celebrated today as the founder of deaf education in America. Sayers traces Gallaudet's work in the fields of deaf education, free common schools, literacy, teacher education and certification, and children's books, while also examining his role in reactionary causes intended to uphold a white, Protestant nation thought to have existed in New England's golden past. Gallaudet's youthful social and political entanglements included involvement with Connecticut's conservative, state-established Congregational Church, the Federalist Party, and the Counter-Enlightenment ideals of Yale (where he was a student). He later embraced anti-immigrant, anti-abolition, and anti-Catholic efforts, and supported the expatriation of free African-Americans to settlements on Africa's west coast. As much a history of the paternalistic, bigoted, and class-conscious roots of a reform movement as a story of one man's life, this landmark work will surprise and enlighten both the hearing and Deaf worlds.

Author : Scott G. Bruce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521123933

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Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism by Scott G. Bruce Pdf

Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism explores the rationales for religious silence in early medieval abbeys and the use of nonverbal forms of communication among monks when rules of silence forbade them from speaking. After examining the spiritual benefits of personal silence as a form of protection against the perils of sinful discourse in early monastic thought, this work shows how the monks of the Abbey of Cluny (founded in 910 in Burgundy) were the first to employ a silent language of meaning-specific hand signs that allowed them to convey precise information without recourse to spoken words. Scott Bruce discusses the linguistic character of the Cluniac sign language, its central role in the training of novices, the precautions taken to prevent its abuse, and the widespread adoption of this custom in other abbeys throughout Europe, which resulted in the creation of regionally specific idioms of this silent language.

Author : Delphine Antoine-Mahut,Anik Waldow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000987898

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Condillac and His Reception by Delphine Antoine-Mahut,Anik Waldow Pdf

This volume explores the philosophy of Étienne Bonnot de Condillac. It presents, for the first time, English-language essays on Condillac’s philosophy, making the complexity and sophistication of his arguments and their influence on early modern philosophy accessible to a wider readership. Condillac’s reflections on the origin and nature of human abilities, such as the ability to reason, reflect and use language, took philosophy in distinctly new directions. This volume showcases the diversity of themes and methods inspired by Condillac’s work. The chapters are divided into four thematic sections. Part 1 highlights themes and discussions that were central to Condillac’s own philosophical thinking, thus laying the ground for the subsequent discussions that trace Condillac’s influence in the 19th century and beyond. Part 2 focuses on the different ways in which Condillac’s philosophy has been taken up, criticised and further developed in France. Part 3 discusses thinkers working in other European countries and parts of the world who took up Condillac’s work. Finally, Part 4 looks at the practical applications of Condillac’s philosophy in a variety of different fields, such as economics, psychology, psychopathology and deaf studies. Condillac and His Reception will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on early modern philosophy, history of science and intellectual history.

Author : André Leroi-Gourhan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262121735

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Gesture and Speech by André Leroi-Gourhan Pdf

Combines in one volume "Technics and Language", in which anthropologist Leroi-Gourhan looks at prehistoric technology in relation to the development of cognitive and liguistic faculties, and "Memory and Rhythms", which addresses instinct and intelligence from a sociological viewpoint.

Author : Myriam Vermeerbergen,Lorraine Leeson,Onno Alex Crasborn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902724796X

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Simultaneity in Signed Languages by Myriam Vermeerbergen,Lorraine Leeson,Onno Alex Crasborn Pdf

Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of information simultaneously. Over the past fifteen years, there has been a growing interest in the issue of simultaneity in signed languages. However, this book is the first to offer a comprehensive treatment of this topic, presenting a collection of papers dealing with different aspects of simultaneity in a range of related and unrelated signed languages, in descriptive and cross-linguistic treatments which are set in different theoretical frameworks. This volume has relevance for those interested in sign linguistics, in teaching and learning signed languages, and is also highly recommended to anyone interested in the fundamental underpinnings of human language and the effects of signed versus spoken modality.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015079919778

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan J. Cienki,Cornelia Müller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228437

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Metaphor and Gesture by Alan J. Cienki,Cornelia Müller Pdf

This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas which receive physical representation through metaphors when speakers gesture. This book presents a snapshot of the state of the art in these converging fields, offering research papers as well as commentaries from multiple perspectives. In addition to conceptual metaphor theory it includes different theoretical approaches to semiotics, and the methods used range from controlled experimentation, to cognitive ethnography, to lexical semantic analysis. The use of metaphor in gesture is shown to reflect idiosyncracies of thought in the moment of speaking as well as structural, cultural, and interactional patterns. The series of commentaries discusses the potential importance of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of such fields as anthropology, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, psychology, and semiotics.

Author : Harlan Lane
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307874719

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When the Mind Hears by Harlan Lane Pdf

The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.

Author : Renate Fischer
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002929900

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Looking Back by Renate Fischer Pdf

A Reader on the History of Deaf Communities and their Sign Languages