| Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 體育學系 === 98 === The relationship among the concepts of body, language and play is the key to the core of the knowledge of sports research although most people used to concern “body” as the only focus for research in the field. The attempt in this study, therefore, is to clarify the meaning of the claim. However, the way of approaching this claim is not only by directly explaining in general, but also by metaphorical descriptions to show the awareness in a reflective situation. Thus the whole dissertation can be regarded as a journey toward self-understanding. It develops into the three different directions.
The first is in a theorizing way. By asking “what is understanding？”,the researcher started her inquiry through a dialogues with some philosophical texts, written by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael Polanyi, Bernard Suits, J. Huizinga and etc. In this part, addressing the history of her understanding to the concept of understanding, a theorizing correlation among body, language and play was exhibited in the writing.
The second one is the action to exemplify the horizon fusion, responding to the inspirations from the first trip. The knowledge of sports was reflected on due to the understanding and discussed into two parts, being in the sports and with sports. The being in the sports focused on the people who got knowledge by doing, indulging themselves into the real world of sports while the other one focused on the ones who do the research with sports. The meanings of knowledge from these two perspectives sketched two different pictures, and that were explored in this study.
In the final, the reflective action on the whole process of the inquiry was interpreted in two ways. The one was by story-telling, and the other was to express directly, by analyzing and describing.
Key words: body, language, play, self-understanding, sports
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