Lingue dei segni e sordità



Lingue dei segni e sordità

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Aims & Scope
Lingue dei segni e sordità (LISS) is a dialogical space open to the comparison of different approaches and schools in the study of deafness and its innumerable implications. LISS aims to become a point of reference for research and experimentation in the fields of acquisitional linguistics, sign language linguistics (including tactile variants), applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, translation and interpretation. In this sense, it is a space that is open to the diverse input from scholars, professionals working at various levels of social inclusion and sign language teachers. The Series welcomes contributions in Italian, English and sign languages.

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Latest published volume

Latest book publication cover
  • Grammatica della lingua dei segni italiana (LIS) in LIS
  • Chiara Branchini, Elena Fornasiero, Margherita Greco, Lara Mantovan
  • Dec. 19, 2025

  • The Grammar of Italian Sign Language (LIS) in LIS is the third version, after the English and Italian version, of the digital grammar of Italian Sign Language. The present version is entirely produced in LIS, without written texts. In so doing, we aimed at a product completely accessible to Deaf signers enabling both hearing and deaf people to reflect upon LIS in LIS. As the preceding versions, this is also a product of the Horizon 2020 SIGN-HUB project. The Grammar is published in a reduced version if compared to the Table of Content of the English and Italian version, but we hope to have produced a flexible work, able to grow in the future, thanks to its digital format. The Grammar is composed of five parts: Part 1 is devoted to the social-historical background where the language developed, while the other four parts describe the linguistic domains of Lexicon, Morphology, Syntax and Pragmatics. We also included a glossary of technical terms containing the LIS signs specific to the linguistic field, together with their definitions. Each section of the Grammar displays references to other sections, video examples and videos for glossary items.