Gesturing in Language: Merleau-Ponty and Mukařovský at the Phenomenological Limits of Structuralism
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<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00071773.2022.2076136?journalCode=rbsp20" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00071773.2022.2076136?journalCode=rbsp20</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2022.2076136" target="_blank" >10.1080/00071773.2022.2076136</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Gesturing in Language: Merleau-Ponty and Mukařovský at the Phenomenological Limits of Structuralism
Original language description
This study aims to corroborate Merleau-Ponty’s interpretations of fundamental ideas from Saussure’s linguistics by linking them to works that were independently elaborated by Jan Mukařovský, Czech structuralist aesthetician and literary theorist. I provide a comparative analysis of the two authors’ theories of language and their interpretations of thought as fundamentally determined by language. On this basis, I investigate how they conceive linguistic innovation and its translation into changes in the constituted language and other social codes and institutions. I explain how they elaborate on Saussure’s idea of language as a system of oppositions by interpreting cultural innovation as a systematic variation of pre-established social norms and, similarly, linguistic innovation as gesturing within language. Connectedly, I show how Mukařovský’s works help clarify Merleau-Ponty’s focus on the gestural dimension of language. By discussing the two thinkers’ arguments in favour of linguistic innovation, I explore what could be called phenomenological limits of structuralism.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
ISSN
0007-1773
e-ISSN
2332-0486
Volume of the periodical
53
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
415-439
UT code for WoS article
000795728800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85130501252