Grammar and Experience: The Interplay Between Language Awareness and Attitude in Italian Sign Language (LIS)

Shifts in the awareness towards language may lead to new attitude and a selection process of certain features among many forms sign can have community ultimately change. Drawing from usage-based views (Bybee, 2006; Hopper, 1987), studies on perception attitudes (McKenzie 2015; Dragojevic et al., 2021) ethnography communication (Hymes, 1974), this paper will investigate with matched guise participant observation techniques how specific linguistic are guided by participants’ attitudes. Ten deaf participants (age range 28-82) were shown four videos signers using different formal registers LIS asked questions about their signing style natural setting. Levels analyzed light Culioli (1990) accordance scale correlated Results show that is shaped ideologies which leads communicative patterns made legitimate direction autonomy, purism identity preservation.