Series | SAIL
Edited book | Inclusive Linguistic Education
Chapter | Linguistica generale e lingue segnate

Linguistica generale e lingue segnate

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Despite persistent uninformed and unscientific beliefs, the status of sign languages as proper languages has been deeply recognised by contemporary research. However, from the point of view of modern Linguistics, the peculiar properties of sign languages pose a challenge to some traditional notions which have been employed so far to describe linguistic phenomena. The present paper explores some key-concepts in Linguistics which should be redefined, such as phonetics, channel, and the relationship between signifier and signified, and suggests ways in which these notions could be reconceptualized in order to be ‘descriptively inclusive’ of all natural languages.


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Submitted: May 27, 2020 | Published: Feb. 23, 2021 | Language: it

Keywords Communication Sign Languages Pasigraphy Channel Deafhood

Copyright © 2021 Davide Astori. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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