ALESSIO DI RENZO

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXVII
email: alessio.direnzo@uniroma1.it





Alessio Di Renzo studied at Sapienza University of Rome, where he obtained in 2006 his Bachelor's Degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques of Development and Education with a thesis entitled "The narrative productions in LIS of deaf children and young people" (with a score of 90/110) .
At the same University in 2020 he graduated in Linguistics with a thesis entitled "The lexicon of the LIS: styles of use in Italian Sign Language (LIS) (110/110 summa cum laude).
Since his early years of university he worked in different areas ( teaching , coordination and planning) at various institutions that deal with deaf and the emancipation of deaf people, including the historical national association of the Deaf “ENS”, the State Institute of the Deaf in Rome “ISSR”, and the Italian Sign Language (LIS) school “Gruppo SILIS”. In 2005 co-founded, and currently directs as president the company “Il Treno soc. coop. soc.le onlus” that promotes early Italian/LIS bilingualism and publish bilingual italian/LIS editions for deaf and hearing children and youth and their families.

Since 2008 he has been working at the LaCAM - Language and Communication Across Modalities laboratory of the Institute of Science and Technology of Cognition (ISTC) of the National Research Council (CNR) in the field of scientific projects, dealing mainly with L1 acquisition, LIS writing and,in the last years he has mostly devoted himself to LIS Linguistics.

His PhD research project is aimed at investigating linguistic constructions in LIS according to the type of textual production (conversation, conference, monologue, narrative and literary text).

Research products

  • 11573/1652544 - 2022 - Italian sign language from a cognitive and socio-semiotic perspective. Implications for a general language theory (03a Saggio, Trattato Scientifico)
    MARIA ROCCAFORTE, ALESSIO DI RENZO
  • 11573/1615659 - 2022 - Signed Languages: A Triangular Semiotic Dimension (01a Articolo in rivista)
    CHIARA BONSIGNORI, ALESSIO DI RENZO
  • 11573/1620008 - 2021 - Variations lexicales et invariants structuraux dans des récits de sept langues des signes (02a Capitolo o Articolo)
    ALESSIO DI RENZO
  • 11573/1620036 - 2021 - Eye-movement patterns to social and non-social cues in early deaf adults (01a Articolo in rivista)
    ALESSIO DI RENZO
  • 11573/1306088 - 2019 - Descrivere la lingua dei segni italiana. Una prospettiva cognitiva e sociosemiotica (03a Saggio, Trattato Scientifico)
    MARIA ROCCAFORTE, ALESSIO DI RENZO
  • 11573/1620070 - 2017 - Altre voci. Le lingue dei segni tra passato e presente. (02a Capitolo o Articolo)
    ALESSIO DI RENZO
  • 11573/1615782 - 2015 - Cognitive, Cultural, and Linguistic Sources of a Handshape Distinction Expressing Agentivity (01a Articolo in rivista)
    ALESSIO DI RENZO
  • 11573/868295 - 2015 - Evaluative Morphology in Sign Languages (02a Capitolo o Articolo)
    GIULIA PETITTA, ALESSIO DI RENZO, ISABELLA CHIARI
  • 11573/1615893 - 2014 - Sign Vocabulary in Deaf Toddlers Exposed to Sign Language Since Birth (01a Articolo in rivista)
    Pasquale RINALDI, ALESSIO DI RENZO
  • 11573/559217 - 2014 - La lingua dei segni italiana e il canale scritto (04b Atto di convegno in volume)
    ALESSIO DI RENZO, ISABELLA CHIARI
  • 11573/462951 - 2013 - Sign Language Representation: new approaches to the study of face-to-face and written Italian Sign Language (LIS) (02a Capitolo o Articolo)
    ALESSIO DI RENZO, ISABELLA CHIARI
  • 11573/524431 - 2012 - How a story is told in Italian and in LIS (04a Atto di comunicazione a congresso)
    MARIA ROCCAFORTE, ALESSIO DI RENZO, Paola Maria GIUNCHI
  • 11573/1615904 - 2012 - Deaf Children Attending Different School Environments: Sign Language Abilities and Theory of Mind (01a Articolo in rivista)
    GIOVANNI VALERI, ALESSIO DI RENZO, PATRIZIO PASQUALETTI
  • 11573/1620104 - 2012 - L’inno di Mameli tradotto in Lingua dei Segni Italiana (LIS): un’analisi linguistica (04b Atto di convegno in volume)
    ALESSIO DI RENZO, GIULIA PETITTA, TOMMASO LUCIOLI, PAOLO ROSSINI
  • 11573/1615969 - 2011 - Scrivere la LIS con il Sign Writing. Manuale introduttivo (03c Manuale Didattico)
    ALESSIO DI RENZO, TOMMASO LUCIOLI, GABRIELE GIANFREDA, GIULIA PETITTA, PAOLO ROSSINI
  • 11573/1615952 - 2010 - Assessing lexical production in deaf signing children with the Boston Naming Test (01a Articolo in rivista)
    ALESSIO DI RENZO
  • 11573/214298 - 2009 - La traducibilità di metafore in LIS: un riscontro da un test di comprensione di metafore 4-6 anni, il TCM junior (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    ALESSIO DI RENZO, Sergio MELOGNO, Maria Antonietta PINTO
  • 11573/359270 - 2008 - Competenze narrative di bambini sordi segnanti: un confronto in funzione del tipo di educazione linguistica (01a Articolo in rivista)
    ALESSIO DI RENZO, Maria Antonietta PINTO

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