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- Title
The Historical Relationship between Triestine Sign Language and Austrian Sign Language.
- Authors
DOTTER, FRANZ; BIDOLI, CYNTHIA J. KELLETT
- Abstract
The high degree of comprehensibility between the signed languages in Trieste (present-day Italy) and Austria is very probably due to their joint history of deaf schools within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Investigation undertaken in archives in Trieste and Klagenfurt has revealed interesting similarities in the education of deaf children there since the mid-nineteenth century, which may explain present-day affinities. General background information is provided regarding sign language in Italy and Austria, and a detailed description of schools and teaching methodologies, which are the probable source of a historical connection, is then presented.
- Subjects
ITALIAN dialects; AUSTRIAN Sign Language; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATION of deaf children; AUSTRIA-Hungary, 1867-1918
- Publication
Sign Language Studies, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 2, p193
- ISSN
0302-1475
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sls.2017.0002