ASLD 456 - Sign Language Sociolinguistics

(3 units)

Prerequisites: ASLD 305 and ASLD 306 .
This course provides students with a wider understanding of language variations that exist within signing Deaf communities. Sociolinguistics topics include sign language variation based on age of acquisition factors, geographic factors, social factors, language contact, and unimodal/bimodal bilingualism and multilingualism.

Letter grade only (A-F). Not repeatable for credit.