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Adam Kendon
Sign Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-02

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Adam Kendon

This is the first SLS issue that will not have Adam Kendon's name on the list of board members since the fall issue of 2000. Dr. Kendon passed away this past September. SLS would like to recognize his years of service and take the opportunity to highlight some of his lifelong academic accomplishments. Dr. Kendon was a pioneer in the study of gesture and language embodiment. At the time of his passing, at the age of eighty-eight, he was still an active scholar and editor of the journal Gesture and the book series Gesture Studies, as well as honorary president of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Born in London in 1934, he began his career as an experimental psychologist in Oxford, where he received his PhD in 1963 and earned a position in what later became the department of Experimental Psychology. A world scholar, his academic career spanned research and teaching positions in England, in the United States (at Cornell University, Bronx State Hospital in New York, and the Annenberg School of Communications in Philadelphia), in Australia (at the Australian National University in Canberra), and in Southern Italy (at the University of Salerno, the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Napoli, and the University of Calabria). His scientific interest in human interaction and communication led to his groundbreaking research in gesture and other bodily actions, such as eye gaze, as intrinsic components of language. At a time when sign languages were beginning to gain recognition in linguistic research, Kendon's work brought to the forefront language embodiment in spoken languages, calling attention to the systematic coordination of gesture and speech, as highlighted in his influential pieces "Some Relationships between Body-Motion and Speech" (1972) and "Gesticulation and Speech: Two Aspects of the Process of Utterance" (1980)—among many other publications. While in Australia, his research in language [End Page 310] embodiment led to his involvement in the study of alternate sign languages—sign languages that develop not among deaf people but rather for ritual purposes. His book Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives, published in 1988, is still considered the most comprehensive study of Australian Aboriginal sign languages to date. In Southern Italy, where he lived extendedly since the 1990s, he conducted extensive ethnographical data collection of the gestures in the discourse of Neopolitans. Some of this work was disseminated in his widely known book Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance (2004). His lifetime work was instrumental in our current understanding of human language modality and the visual/embodied basis of all human language.

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Kendon, A. 1972. Some Relationships between Body-Motion and Speech. In Studies in Dyadic Communication, ed. A. Wolfe Siegman and B. Pope, 177–210. New York: Pergamon.

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———. 1980. Gesticulation and Speech: Two Aspects of the Process of Utterance. In The Relationship of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication, ed. M. Key, 207–27. The Hague, the Netherlands: De Gruyter Mouton.

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———. 1988. Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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———. 2004. Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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中文翻译：

亚当·肯登

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亚当·肯登

这是自 2000 年秋季刊以来董事会成员名单上没有 Adam Kendon 的第一期 SLS。Kendon博士于去年 9 月去世。SLS想表彰他多年的服务，并借此机会强调他一生的一些学术成就。肯登博士是研究手势和语言体现的先驱。在他去世时，享年 88 岁，他仍然是一名活跃的学者和《手势》杂志和《手势研究》系列丛书的编辑，以及国际手势研究学会的名誉主席. 他 1934 年出生于伦敦，在牛津开始了他的实验心理学家生涯，并于 1963 年在那里获得博士学位，并在后来成为实验心理学系的部门获得了职位。作为一名世界学者，他的学术生涯跨越了在英国、美国（康奈尔大学、纽约布朗克斯州立医院和费城安嫩伯格传播学院）、澳大利亚（澳大利亚国立大学）的研究和教学职位堪培拉）和意大利南部（萨勒诺大学、那不勒斯的东方大学和卡拉布里亚大学）。他对人类互动和交流的科学兴趣导致他对手势和其他身体动作（例如眼睛注视）作为语言的内在组成部分进行了开创性的研究。在手语开始在语言学研究中获得认可的时候，Kendon 的工作将语言在口语中的体现带到了最前沿，呼吁注意手势和语音的系统协调，正如他有影响力的作品“身体之间的一些关系-运动与言语”（1972 年）和“手势与言语：话语过程的两个方面”（1980 年）——以及许多其他出版物。在澳大利亚期间，他的语言研究[End Page 310]体现导致他参与了替代手语的研究——手语不是在聋人中发展起来的，而是为了仪式目的。他的著作《澳大利亚土著手语：文化、符号学和交流视角》于 1988 年出版，至今仍被认为是对澳大利亚土著手语最全面的研究。自 1990 年代以来，他长期居住在意大利南部，他对大都会人的话语中的手势进行了广泛的民族志数据收集。其中一些工作在他广为人知的著作《手势：作为话语的可见行动》中传播(2004)。他一生的工作对我们目前对人类语言形态和所有人类语言的视觉/具身基础的理解起到了重要作用。