Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics
Edited by Olga Capirci and Sabina Fontana
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 29:1/2 (2026) ca. 150 pp.
Sabina Fontana
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sabina Fontana is involved.
Titles
Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theory
Virginia Volterra, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo and Sabina Fontana
This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to other sign languages, this book also enlightens some aspects of spoken languages, which were often overlooked in the… read more[Gesture Studies, 9] 2022. vi, 220 pp.
Articles
2026 Cognitive and functional explorations in sign language linguistics: Introduction Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics, Capirci, Olga and Sabina Fontana (eds.), pp. 2–8 | Introduction
2008 Mouth actions as gesture in sign language Dimensions of gesture, Kendon, Adam † and Tommaso Russo Cardona (eds.), pp. 104–123 | Article
The present study investigates the nature of mouth actions in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and shows how the manual and the oral modality can be integrated when the visual-gestural channel is chosen for communication. Finally, the role played by mouth actions in sign language will be investigated… read more