IT 111 - ASL/English Comparative Linguistics

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Kapiolani Community College

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4 hours lecture per week for eight weeks Prerequisite(s): ENG 100; ASL 202 or equivalent; IT 102; or instructor's consent. Recommended Preparation: LING 102. Comment: IT 111 is an 8-week, modular course. IT 111 compares the major linguistic features of American Sign Language and English. Basic similarities and differences in the morphology, phonology, syntax, and semantics of these two languages are examined. The course introduces students to how each language represents various communicative functions and to the process of analyzing those functions. Upon successful completion of IT 111, the student should be able to: Describe the importance of comparative linguistics to interpreters. Compare and contrast basic phonology and morphology for ASL and English. Compare and contrast how ASL and English use nouns and verbs to organize events. Compare, contrast and demonstrate how ASL and English describe people, places, and things. Demonstrate pronominilization and role-shifting in ASL and English. Compare and contrast how ASL and English describe actions. Demonstrate various verb forms in ASL and English. Compare and contrast how each language asserts, negates, and questions. Demonstrate basic sentence types (assertions, negations, queries, conditionals, rhetoricals, etc.) with equivalent meanings in ASL and English. Demonstrate appropriate non-manual grammatical markers in ASL. Compare and contrast how ASL and English indicate spatial arrangements and proximities. Demonstrate various ASL classifiers (Body, Body-part, Instrument, Semantic, Locative, etc.). Compare, contrast and demonstrate how each language pluralizes. Demonstrate how topicalization is handled in ASL and English. 5 Demonstrate the process of expansion and compression on an introductory level. Compare, contrast and demonstrate how metaphors, idioms and colloquialisms are handled in both languages. Compare and contrast how conversations and extended narratives are opened and closed in ASL and English (greetings, introductions, leave-taking, etc.). Participate in small group activities that utilize selected linguistic features in both languages. Provide structured feedback and evaluations to classmates during small group activities. Demonstrate expanded ASL and English vocabularies.

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2.00

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Institution Website:

kapiolani.hawaii.edu/page/home

Phone Number:

(808) 734-9000

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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