LINGUA DEI SEGNI ITALIANA (LIS) I

The Course allows students to master the basics of the discipline, such as the nature of cheremes and sign structure as well as its syntactic order. Language in its social and historical dimensions will be focused on.

Frontal lessons and group work.

knowledge and understanding:

Starting from the basic skills any student has on the nature and functioning of his/her language, this course aims at building awareness in relation to the different levels of analysis and to how the different variables affect sign language.

applying knowledge and understanding:

The course intends to provide students with the skill of analysing critically language and the models developed to analyse it in order to elicit the different conception of language and to reflect on a multimodal model of language and of the translation process.

making judgement:

The awareness on the language concept and its different levels of analysis, as well as the variables that can affect it, make students capable of express judgements and of evaluating the nature of the linguistic and translation event.

communication skills:

Thinking and talking about language require a technical register that allow to describe linguistic events in an accurate way. This course aims then at providing students with this technical register and accuracy.

learning skills:

This course is not based on a depositary approach but on a co-costruction path that involves the professor and the students on learning and sharing the study of models of linguistic analysis and their cricitical aspects.

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