L’espressione dell’incertezza nella Lingua dei Segni Italiana (LIS)

Authors

  • Gabriele Gianfreda
  • Virginia Volterra
  • Andrzej Zuczkowski

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2221/4298

Keywords:

Italian Sign Language (LIS), certainty, uncertainty, epistemic modality, evidentiality, conversation analysis

Abstract

The present study aims to expand the investigation on the communication of
certainty and uncertainty in sign languages, focusing on dimensions already
explored for verbal languages. In order to study the linguistic expressions through
which Italian Sign Language (LIS) signers perform these specific communicative
functions in spontaneous interactions, a corpus of conversational exchanges has
been collected and analyzed. In the present paper the more relevant linguistic
forms identified in the corpus to express certainty and uncertainty, with their
functions and characteristics, are described.

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Published

2014-04-18

How to Cite

Gianfreda, G., Volterra, V., & Zuczkowski, A. (2014). L’espressione dell’incertezza nella Lingua dei Segni Italiana (LIS). Ricerche Di Pedagogia E Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education, 9(1), 199–234. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2221/4298

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2014): Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty: multidisciplinary perspectives on epistemicity in everyday life [Special Issue]

Section

Special Issue

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