Gestural fieldwork in Southern Italy: methodological considerations and challenges
Project title:Gestural fieldwork in Southern Italy: methodological considerations and challenges
Name(s) of staff/team involved: Dr Valentina Colasanti
Short description: This project is embedded in Dr Valentina Colasanti’s research project Gestural Grammar: Investigating gestures in Southern Italy, which aims to study the grammatical contribution of gestures in the endangered languages spoken in Southern Italy. The AHSS Benefactions award will allow Dr Colasanti and her international team based at Trinity College Dublin to conduct fieldwork on gestures in the Italian peninsula. In particular, the award will enable her team to gather linguistic data using new elicitation techniques and methodologies tailored specifically to the investigation of gestures in the complex speech communities present in Italy, where most individuals have access to at least three distinct grammars (i.e., they are multilingual).
This project is funded by the Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund Award awarded by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin.
Link to main project: https://valentinacolasanti.it/gestugram/