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In this Deaf Studies (Sign Language and English) course at Aarhus University, the students will be introduced in the discipline of Deaf Studies. Central in this overview is an exploration of themes that have been investigated and a critical examination of the theoretical frameworks and concepts that have been used (such as Deaf culture/community/identity/space/networks/sociality, Deafhood, Deaf Gain). The students also will gain insight in the disciplines different waves. While the first wave of Deaf Studies persistently tried to identify and define deaf community, deaf culture or deaf identity as clearly delineated units, themes explored by researchers in the second wave are deaf epistemologies and deaf ontologies, in which the embodiment as a deaf person is central. The third wave of Deaf Studies builds upon and extends the second waves research by arguing that this embodiment is central not only in the study of the research participants experiences but also in terms of the researchers positionalities and their relationships with deaf research participants and deaf communities.
Decidedly, research in the third wave is also more global in focus. This overview will establish the framework for the remainder of the course in which recent ethnographic research will be discussed, covering all geographic areas and all kinds of deaf spaces including Europe, USA, South-America, Africa, and Asia; urban and rural locations; deaf schools and organisations; temporary deaf spaces such as in pubs and public transport, deaf events and tourism. Throughout the whole course, ethnographic and visual research methods in Deaf Studies will be discussed as well.
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In 2017 Deaf Studies the deaf studies course has two themes. To be able to succesfully complete the course students are to take part in and submit a final paper that covers both themes.
The language of instruction will be International Sign Language and translation to and from English will be provided.
Sign Language Linguistics
The theme „Introduction to sign language linguistics“ provides a comprehensive overview of language properties at various levels, of sign language use and methodology. It covers ten different topics:
(1) Status of signed language as a full-fledged language and notion of visuo-gestural modality
(2) Sign phonetics and phonology
(4) Morphological modulations and word formation
(5) Non-manuals and prosodic cues
(6) Sentence types
(7) Discourse (I): Use of signing space
(8) Discourse (II): Text types
(9) Sociolinguistic variation
(10) Corpus sign linguistics: Data collection, annotation and analysis
Sign Language Interpreting and Translation
The theme „Introduction to Sign Language Interpreting and Translation“ provides a comprehensive overview of sign language interpreting and translation. It covers ten different topics:
(1) Introduction to Interpreting and Translation
(2) Interpreting: Communication, Interaction and Language Proficiency
(3) The Effort Models (Gile)
(4) Community Interpreting
(5) Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct
(6) Demand-Control Schema (Dean & Pollard)
(7) The Role-Space Model (Llewellyn-Jones & Lee)
(8) Team Interpreting
(9) Translation Approaches
(10) International Signs and Interpreting & Translation
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