Undergraduate Catalog

ASL 390 Discourse Features in ASL

This course demonstrates the use of space and eye gaze. It also demonstrates the use of role shifting to indicate speaker or locus of the subject/object in the ASL text. Organization of an ASL text and the function of these features will be covered. How they overlap with other features of the language will also be covered. Turn-taking regulators will be discussed within the conversation style of a discourse text.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Prerequisites: ASL 304

Distribution

Bachelors, Undergraduate