Workshop SLI 2019
Language policies, recognition and cultural identity: the case of sign languages
Politiche linguistiche, riconoscimento ed identità culturale: il caso delle lingue dei segni
Organized by
Carlo Geraci Chiara Branchini & Anna Cardinaletti Sabina Fontana
Supported by
The Sign-Hub project (link to project website here)
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693349.
Program
pdf here
The whole workshop will be interpreted into Italian Sign Language and ASL/International Sign
09:00 AM Opening
09:05 PM Keynote presentation:
Sara Trovato, Notions of deafness and school legislation
Visioni della sordità e legislazione scolastica
10:05 AM Short break
10:10 AM Małgorzata Talipska, Piotr Mostowski & Paweł Rutkowski, Language recognition in the case of Polish Sign Language:
policies, accessibility, education.
(Abstract here)
10:35 AM Donata Chiricò, La lingua dei segni francese tra politiche educative e identità culturale
(Abstract here)
11:00 AM Coffee break
11:30 AM Michael W. Morgan, Unofficially Official, and yet a bit Superficial: Status of Sign Languages in the Lands of Buddha
(Abstract here)
11:55 AM Short break
12:05 PM Amir Zuccalà, OraLISmo. Politiche linguistiche e attori sociali nella campagna per il riconoscimento
della lingua dei segni in Italia
(Abstract here)
12:30 PM Theodorus Du Plessis & Wilmaré Terblanche, Wins and losses for the eleven South African languages after officialisation.
Is South African Sign Language a special case?
(Abstract here)
12:55 PM Short break
01:00 PM Tavola rotonda (in Italian, LIS & ASL/IS)