TACTILE ITALIAN SIGN LANGUAGE

Academic year
2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
LIS TATTILE
Course code
LT0046 (AF:330781 AR:189368)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-LIN/01
Period
2nd Semester
Course year
2
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The course is part of the second year of Languages, civilization and science of language.
The characterize elements and the goals to be achieved are: to have a basic communication with deafblind people and to learn how to manage the different situations, choosing the most suitable methods and solutions.
Students are advised to attend the course of Tactile Italian Sign Language after having attended the course of Italian Sign Language 2.
-Features of the deafblind population
-Communication strategies with deafblind people
I-nteraction with deafblind people
-Guidance and leading techniques
-Feedback
-Some knowledge on tactile perception
-Non-verbal communication
-Formational parameters: LIS vs LISt
-Discussion upon the non-manual markers and their equivalent in LISt
-The adverbial category in LISt
-Techniques to disambiguate signs

-Interrogative clauses
-Conditional clauses
-The spatial dimension
-The adjectival category in LISt
- Corballis Michael C., Dalla mano alla bocca. Le origini del linguaggio. Milano: Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2008.
- Mazzeo M., Tatto e linguaggio. Il corpo delle parole. Roma, Editori Riuniti, 2003.
- Checchetto A., “Interpretare in LIS a favore di persone sordocieche: cosa accade ad una lingua visiva quando la percezione è tattile”, in Vallini C., De Meo A., Caruso V. (a cura di), Traduttori e traduzioni. Napoli: Liguori, 2011. e-book version: http://www.liguori.it/schedanew.asp?isbn=4275
- Further readings will be available online.
Students will be evaluated through an oral examination aiming at: (i) verifying the comprehension of the contents presented during the course; (ii) the students’ ability to analyze video clips in Tactile Italian Sign Language; (iii) interact in Tactile Italian Sign Language during basic communicative situations.
Students will be further evaluated for their ability to acquire and reflect upon the indicated bibliography.
Lectures and linguistic practices. Video recorded materials and be presented and discussed.
Italian
italian
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 08/02/2022