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- Effective Term:
- Winter 2017 through Summer 2020
- Course Number:
- ITP 231
- Course Title:
- American Sign Language Linguistics II
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Analyzes and explores additional phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, variation and historical change of ASL. Explores the discourse structure of ASL.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of this course students should be able to:
- Discuss and explain the parallels between structural features of language, particularly English and American Sign Language, for the purpose of defining and demonstrating that ASL is a language.
- Analyze and explain linguistic terms such as: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse, bilingualism and language contact, mouth morphemes in ASL, registers, variations, and language as art.
- Develop linguistic competence with ASL from an analytical-theoretical perspective.
- Analyze and explain how the structure of ASL is built and how it functions in language usage.
- Develop language observation skills based on theoretical linguistics.
- Complete a research project including data collection, analysis, and written report.
Course Activities and Design
Activities include readings, lectures, analyzing videos, research project on semantics, discussion, small group problem-solving tasks, and hands-on activities.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Students will be assessed by homework assignments, research project, written examinations or/and quizzes.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
This course introduces students to the study of ASL from a linguistics point of view, and covers the following topics:
- Terminology used by linguists when discussing ASL
- Research and publications by various linguists in the field of ASL linguistics
- The impact of the research and publications in recognizing ASL as a language
- Collect research data by interviewing several people, analyzing the data, and writing a paper on the research findings
- Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, language use, and facial grammar (e.g. NMS and mouth morphemes) in ASL will be discussed and analyzed in depth to see how the language is formed
- Language in use, register, and variation will be analyzed and discussed using videotapes
Related Instruction
Computation
Hours: 15- Analyze and explain the linguistic terms such as: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,and discourse, bilingualism and language contact, mouth morphemes in ASL, registers, variations, and language as art
- Complete a research project including data collection, analysis, and written report.
Students will:
- Quantify collected data for their research project to determine the percentage of people who use a select word vs those who do not.
- Develop the data spreadsheet and computing the percent of utterances that the interviewees use to document the data they collect.
- Employ the use of numbers and fractions to show percent of utterances.
Communication
Hours: 30- Discuss and explain the parallels between structural features of language, particularly, English and American Sign Language.
- Analyze and explain linguistic terms such as: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse, bilingualism and language contact, mouth morphemes in ASL, registers, variations, and language as art.
- Analyze and explain how the structure of ASL is built and how it functions in language usage.
- Use terminology used by linguists when discussing ASL.
- Collect research data by interviewing several people, analyzing the data, and write a paper on the research findings.
- Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, language use, and facial grammar (e.g.NMS and mouth morphemes) in ASL will be discussed and analyzed in depth to see how the language is formed.
- Language in use, register, and variation seen in videos will be analyzed and discussed.
Human Relations
Hours: 5- Discuss and explain the parallels between structural features of language, particularly, English and American Sign Language, for purpose of defining and demonstrating that ASL is a language.
- Complete a research project including data collection, analysis, and written report.
- Collect research data by interviewing culturally Deaf research participants.
- Develop culturally appropriate behavior such as eye contact and the use of a visual language.
- Development of professional skills when interacting with the Deaf community members.