Heath Sean, Carter Thomas F
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University Leuven).
University of Brighton.
Body Soc. 2024 Jun;30(2):85-111. doi: 10.1177/1357034X241254982. Epub 2024 Jun 17.
This article develops the concept of 'haptic grammar' to encourage greater scholarly focus on the sensory aspects of bodily motion used to generate movement, knowledge of one's body in an environment, and thus being-in-the-world. It ethnographically examines how swimmers learn specific motions - 'the catch', sculling, hand entry - to illustrate broader questions of how we learn to move our bodies. Focusing on these specific motions emphasises the importance of shared sensory knowledge and perception for learning enskilled bodily movement. More than simply knowing what to move when and how, learning how to sense how one moves one's body parts is a crucial social process that swimmers become more skilful at via interlocutions among themselves and with their coaches regarding specific motions of specific body parts. This article illustrates how such socialised knowledge requires a shared haptic grammar to become more skilful at moving through the water and thus become 'swimmers'.
本文提出了“触觉语法”的概念，以鼓励学术界更加关注用于产生运动的身体动作的感官方面、人在环境中对自身身体的认知，以及由此产生的在世存在。它通过人种志研究来考察游泳者如何学习特定的动作——“抓水”、划水、手部入水，以阐明关于我们如何学习移动身体这一更广泛的问题。关注这些特定动作强调了共享感官知识和感知对于学习熟练的身体动作的重要性。学习如何感知自己如何移动身体部位，不仅仅是简单地知道何时以及如何移动，这是一个关键的社会过程，游泳者通过与自己以及教练就特定身体部位的特定动作进行交流，从而变得更加熟练。本文说明了这种社会化的知识如何需要一种共享的触觉语法，以便在水中游动时变得更加熟练，从而成为“游泳者”。
