German Sign Language and
Communication of the Deaf
Photo: UHH/Denstorf
1 June 2022
Photo: Martin Janečka
This June we have a scientist from Charles University in Prague as a guest at the IDGS.
Martin Janečka gained his Ph.D. for the thesis Semiotic aspects of S. K. Shaumyan’s Grammar at the Palacký University in the field of General linguistics and theory of communication. He also studied in Potsdam (Patholinguistik) as well as at TU Berlin (Semiotics oriented to gestures and facial expressions).
He works at the Department of Czech at the Faculty of Education and as an extern at the Institute of Deaf Studies, both Charles University in Prague.
To his research interests belong morphology-syntax interface, use of gestures by people with aphasia as a substitution of speech, and possible ways of grammaticalization of manual gestures in spoken and in sign languages.
The aim of his visit is particularly to share experience in the area of gesture-sign interface and of grammaticalization of gestures in spoken and sign languages