At the completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an awareness of context and situation and describe their impact on discourse.
- Compare and contrast a variety of discourse features in ASL and English.
- Analyze conversational strategies, such as turntaking, in ASL and English language samples.
- Apply principles of discourse analysis to various scenarios.
- Construct strategies for acting as a cultural mediator between Deaf and hearing participants in a conversation through the role of interpreter.
Major Topics to be Included
- Intonation and Prosody
- Register
- Computer Mediated Discourse
- Narratives
- Humor
- Discourse place and space
- Turntaking strategies in ASL and English users
- Gestures
- Framing and Positioning
- Code-switching
- Cross cultural communication
- Racism
- Discourse markers in ASL and English
- Cohesion
- Involvement strategies for Deaf and hearing people