Open AccessA chi giovano le lingue segnate? Un contributo per un possibile dibattito sul loro valore di inclusività
Author(s) -
Davide Astori
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
educazione linguistica language education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2280-6792
DOI - 10.30687/elle/2280-6792/2020/02/010
Subject(s) - sign (mathematics) , humanity , humanities , perspective (graphical) , value (mathematics) , point (geometry) , reflection (computer programming) , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , theology , programming language , mathematical analysis , geometry , machine learning
If much attention has been gained in recent times by sign languages (in particular in the comparison on their nature and on their main peculiar properties also towards a recognition as proper languages, as well as on the challenges they pose to some traditional notions which have been employed so far to describe linguistic phenomena), their possible value from the perspective of inclusiveness deserves at least a brief reflection: the debate on this topic could be moved, from a theoretical point of view, within the search for vehicular languages that conformed humanity’s whole cultural life (in different ways and times), to discuss the possibility that a sign language could also propose itself, among others, in the future, as auxiliary.