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Linguistic of Italian sign language I

Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: SABINA FONTANA

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course aims at promoting an in-depth knowledge of the different levels of analysis of vocal and sign languages and the ways the different social and pragmatic variables affect language.

Course Structure

Frontal lessons

Seminars

Detailed Course Content

The Course allows students to master the basics of the discipline, such as the nature of sounds and sound systems for vocal languages and cheremes for sign languages, the nature of word and sign structures and syntactic level, the interaction of syntax with semantics and pragmatics.  Students learn to apply problem-solving skills in each of these areas. Furthermore, language in its cognitive and social dimensions will be studied by analysing face-to-face interaction and multimodality in communication and by taking into consideration cultural and linguistic diversity. Language and social life and community will be focussed with the aim of attaining a good level of linguistic and sociolinguistic awareness that can be applied not only to single languages but also to translation as social process.

Textbook Information

Arcodia G.F., Panunzi A., Linguistica. Introduzione alle scienze del linguaggio, Pearson, Milano, 2023

Fontana S., Che cos’è la pragmatica, Carocci, Roma, 2025

Volterra V., Roccaforte M., Di Renzo A., Fontana S., (2019) Descrivere la lingua dei segni italiana. Una prospettiva sociosemiotica e cognitiva. Il Mulino (primi tre capitoli)

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