What are you teaching in your "sign linguistics" course?

[Albert Bickford]

I helped teach a set of courses on signed languages a year ago.  I don't
know whether you're planning to include any of the sociolinguistics of
signed languages in your course, but I found Ceil Lucas's book The
Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages. (2001, Cambridge University Press) to be
very helpful for the sociolinguistics course. I'll hold off on making
recommendations about syntax and phonology, as I'm also interested in what
others with more experience than I would recommend. But, I feel confident
enough about Lucas's book to recommend it. It was readable, covered a lot of
ground, drew out similarities and differences with spoken languages, and
worked well as the major text for a 3 semester-hour course.

--Albert

Albert Bickford
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Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 3:12 AM
Subject: What are you teaching in your "sign linguistics" course?


> Dear all,
>
> I need some insightful ideas from sign linguists here in the list.  I am
going to
> teach a course of sign linguistics in the next term (January-April, 2004;
> supervised by Prof. Gladys Tang), and I am still wondering what kind of
things
> should be covered in the course and what textbook(s), papers, and/or
reading
> materials I should use for the course.  The course is for our M.A.
linguistics
> students, and most of them do not know anything about sign languages, sign
> linguistics, Deaf culture, and other related issues.
>
> I think that many of you are/have been teaching such courses, and I am
very
> curious about what you are teaching.  Would you help me tell me (or us)
what
> kinds of topic you cover, what textbooks/papers/reading materials you use
for
> each topic, and so on?
>
> I think that your responses will be a great resource in teaching sign
> linguistics, and that they will benefit many of us, including me.
>
> I would greatly appreciate it if you kindly let me know the
syllabus/syllabi of
> your course(s), by sending them to me directly or to the list.  Ones that
are
> sent to me will be shared with you to the list, once I could get consent
to
> disclose it to the list.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
>
> Daisuke Sasaki
> Visiting Scholar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
> Ph.D. candidate of linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin
>
>
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