ASL in Academic Settings: Language Features

Researched and produced by Dr. Raychelle Harris

0:04 - What is academic language? (Cazden, 2001)
0:49 - Academic language can be discipline-specific
1:19 - Academic language can happen anywhere, and has to be learned (Gee, 2004)
1:47 - Academic language norms - who decides?
2:37 - Academic language characteristics may be skewed towards particular demographics
4:05 - Academic language and language registers (Joos, 1967)
5:08 - Academic language framework: Specialized discourses (Gee, 2004)
6:51 - Academic language form and function (add Harris, 2016?)
10:28 - Academic language feature: Phonology
11:20 - Academic language feature: Minimizing Fillers
12:17 - Academic language feature: Non-manual Signals
13:25 - Academic language feature: Sign Choice
14:24 - Academic language feature: Third Person
15:14 - Academic language feature: Fingerspelling
15:44 - Academic language feature: Complete Sentences (should add reference, Hochgesang)
16:20 - Academic language feature: Complex Sentences
17:12 - Academic language feature: Pauses & Transitions
18:24 - Academic language feature: Emotive Markers
19:11 - Academic language feature: Space
20:25 - Academic language feature: Authoritative tone
21:07 - Academic language feature: Language functions
21:42 - Academic language feature: Emotional detachment
22:44 - Academic language feature: Eye gaze (Mather, 1996)
24:13 - Practicing and improving academic discourse (Gee, 2004)
25:17 - References

References

Cazden, C. (2001). Classroom discourse: The language of teaching and learning (2nd Ed.). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Gee, J. (2004). Discourse analysis: What makes it critical? In R. Rogers (Ed.), An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Joos, M. (1967). The five clocks. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.

Mather, S. (1996). Initiation in visually constructed dialogue: Reading books with three to eight-year-old students who are deaf and hard of hearing. In C. Lucas (Ed.), Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities (pp. 109-131). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.