Mettre en question le grapho-phonocentrisme: la langue des signes au dix-huitième siècle by Edward Nye

“…In his Lettre sur les sourds et muets, Diderot refers to sign language to settle the old question about the relationship between the order of thought and the order of words, thereby side-lining not just French but also Latin and Greek so as to move beyond the quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. Diderot’s valuing of sign language is unique in the eighteenth century; his contemporaries foreground instead this language’s semiological limits. …”
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