Tra segni e parole: impatto linguistico, sociolinguistico e culturale dell'interpretariato lingua dei segni / lingua vocale

Professional sign language interpreting can be paralleled to social interpreting services for minorities who live in foreign countries (eg: Chinese or African people). However, sign language interpreting plays a crucial role in promoting Deaf people’s access to the hearing majority and to information and culture than were not accessible to them. Through Deaf people’s full participation, sign language interpreting acts on sign language architecture by enlarging the usage dimensions of a language that so far was used only in familiar, informal contexts