popelard@free.fr Professor, School of Communications, Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle
awall@ucalgary.ca Professor, Dept. of French, University of Calgary
How to do Things with Gestures?"
The Austinian revolution showed us that words do not simply mean, but also perform
acts. The idea of our contribution is to show that gestures mean inasmuch as they perform
acts. "Dans le sillage de Michel de Certeau, les gestes entrent dans les arts de faire. En
respectant les travaux d' Emile Benveniste, comment parler d'un langage des gestes ? Les
exemples seront pris dans la littérature française, entre Diderot et Stendhal".