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Sabina FONTANA

Associate Professor of Glottology and linguistics [GLOT-01/A]
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Office: Ex Distretto militare
Email: sabina.fontana@unict.it
Phone: 0932 082773 (890 773)
Web Site: www.sdslingue.unict.it/corsi/l-12/docenti/sabina.fontana

Office Hours
Tuesday from 15:00 to 16:00 in person/online | Thursday from 15:00 to 16:00 online
Location: Teams
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Sabina Fontana is associate professor of Linguistics and Glottology, accredited for full professorship since February 2023.

She is director of the Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario "Cognizione, Linguaggio e Sordità" (http://www.circles.unict.it/). 

She is coordinator of the Gruppo di Studio sulle Politiche Linguistiche della Società di Linguistica Italiana (https://www.societadilinguisticaitaliana.net/gruppi-sli/gspl-sli/). 

She is associated to the CNR (National Council of Research), Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Laboratorio LaCAM (https://www.istc.cnr.it/en/group/lacam). She is affiliated to the Società di Linguistica Italiana (Italian Society of Glottology) and to Sign Language Linguistics Society.

She is referent of the Centro per l'inclusione attiva e partecipata (CINAP) at the local branch SDS, Ragusa of the Department of Humanities

 

 

 

 

 

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Her research activities focus currently on sign languages in correlation with the concept of language as a faculty and the related theoretical and epistemological problems linked to their description and analysis. The analysis is based on a comparative approach with spoken languages. Under this perspective, she has dealt with metaphor and metonymy, with sociolinguistics, with translation and interpreting and different modelization of translation developed for spoken languages, with metalinguistic awareness and gramatization.  Furthermore, she works also in the field of co-speech and co-sign gesture in a developmental perspective and in deaf and hearing adult communication. More recently she has worked also in the field of teaching sign language and Italian, linguistics rights, inclusion processes and empowerment of migrants and minorities.  

 

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