Within a sociosemiotic theoretical framework, this doctoral research explores the Italian Deaf Community’s perspectives on Italian Sign Language (LIS) interpreting and translation services. Drawing on ethnographic principles, the project adopts inductive qualitative methods to document how Deaf users perceive the interpreter’s role, linguistic features in Italian-to-LIS interpreting and translation (e.g., mouthing), and the use of Video Remote Interpreting.
SIGNS@HWU is a group of researchers who focus on sign language studies and Deaf Studies. We are situated in the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University. SIGNS@HWU was established as a cluster of the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies in Scotland, to profile the world-leading interdisciplinary research being conducted at Heriot-Watt University.
