29
Sep.
2025.
14h00
16h00
16h00
History of Czech Sign Language 19.-20. century
salle 159 au CNRS Pouchet et Zoom: https://univ-paris8.zoom.us/j/7705173529
A l'occasion de la visite de Lenka Okrouhlikova, enseignante-chercheure à l'université Charles de Prague, en mission Erasmus à Paris 8 & CNRS en septembre 2025, nous aurons le plaisir de l'écouter présenter ses travaux en cours.
Elle nous présentera un aperçu de l'histoire de la langue des signes tchèque et de son évolution jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
L'interprétation anglais-LSF sera assurée.
Introduction:
Sign languages are usually considered young, much younger than spoken languages, with the oldest sign languages usually considered to be 200-300 years old (Fischer 2015: 460). According to other views, sign languages are much older and existed before the emergence of organized,institutionalized education for the deaf. This opens the way to another perspective on the genesis of these languages (Cantin, Encrevé2022: 1). However, we have few opportunities for evidence-based linguistic research. Although we find some references to the deaf and their communication in ancient and medieval literature (cf. Fulka2020), this gives us no information about what the communication system looked like. We are not aware of any texts older than 250 years relating to the Bohemian territory that discuss the visual-manual communication of the deaf. In the European context, we can only work with pictures of gestures (e.g. Bulwer 1644; Austin 1806, cf. Fischer 1996) or finger alphabets ((cf. Erikson 1998)). More interesting source of material might be the glossaries of monastic signs of monks who had taken a vow of silence. Although Stokoe(1987) refers to the connection between monastic sign languages and Deaf sign languages as an improbable myth and it is very difficult to prove a direct connection, the connection between the church, deaf education, and institutes for the deaf is undeniable.
Interprété en LSF
