Revue semestrielle de linguistique et littératures romanes

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(1):73-88 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.006

Ancrage perceptif et invariant dans les langues des signes (LS), langues de sourdsFrench

Brigitte GARCIA, Emmanuella MARTINOD
UMR 7023 Structures Formelles du Langage, Université Paris 8-Université Paris Lumières et CNRS

Mots clés: langues des signes; percept; iconicisation; invariant et variation; configuration morphémique; typologie des langues des signes

Perceptual anchoring and invariance in sign languages (LS), languages of the deaf

Sign languages (SLs), the visual-gestural languages used by deaf people throughout the world, display a higher degree of similarities than the one existing among spoken languages (oral-aural languages). The paper explores the hypothesis according to which this substantial invariant would be linked to the common rooting of SLs in a figurative depiction (iconicization) of human perceptive-practical experience. This issue is addressed through the study of a specific aspect: the comparison of the so-called morphemic handshapes throughout a panel of SLs. The study highlights the existence of a cross-SLs core of morphemic handshapes and shows that they can be analyzed as iconicization of percepts. This thereby supports the initial hypothesis and offers insight into the original input of SLs concerning the broad issue of the links between perception and language.

Keywords: sign language; percept; iconicization; invariant and variation; morphemic handshape; sign language typology

Published: June 11, 2017  Show citation

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GARCIA, B., & MARTINOD, E. (2017). Ancrage perceptif et invariant dans les langues des signes (LS), langues de sourds. Écho des études romanes, 13(1), 73-88. doi: 10.32725/eer.2017.006
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