Gesture, Orality, Writing and Translation: The rise and urgency of signed languages and phonological primacy in language studies.

Authors

  • Roberto Mário Schramm Junior Doutorando da Pós Graduação em Estudos da Tradução (PGET), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.tradterm.2014.85623

Keywords:

Sign languages, Gestural origins of language, Gesture, Multimodality, Translation.

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss certain problems concerning the privilege of oral discourse in the core of Linguistics. Starting from the context of the Sign Languages, we argue that most of the key concepts of Linguistics are inextricably and uncomfortably connected to oral speech. Such concepts are to be discussed in the realm of the paradigmatic crossing from the 20th century semiotics to the 21st century multimodality. Also, we shall confront the “textualist” and “oralist” approaches with the issues of gestural and sign languages. Our thesis: gesture constitutes a discursive modality as much as speech and writing do. Moreover, full discursiveness would resolve itself in a translational model, where each and every modality supports and enlightens the following one.

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Author Biography

  • Roberto Mário Schramm Junior, Doutorando da Pós Graduação em Estudos da Tradução (PGET), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

    Doutorando junto ao Programa de Estudos da Tradução (www.pget.ufsc.br) da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, e se dedica à tradução portuguesa, em oitava rima, de Don Juan, de Byron. Publicou alguns trabalhos sobre literatura e tradução; traduções em verso de Byron e Shelley; e um poema intitulado O Quartzo Crescente. Do espanhol, traduziu o conto Vicissitudes del Vício, do costa-riquenho Gillermo Barquero.

Published

2014-10-15

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How to Cite

Schramm Junior, R. M. (2014). Gesture, Orality, Writing and Translation: The rise and urgency of signed languages and phonological primacy in language studies. TradTerm, 23, 241-270. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.tradterm.2014.85623