Understanding Linguistic Variation in American Sign Language
Description
Take a moment to reflect on your day to day life. Think about the conversation you have with your barista at Starbucks, the polite hellos and you’re welcomes you pass out to strangers on the street, or the sound of your best friend’s latest story. Society could not exist without language. Every person utilizes language within their own spaces and communities to establish their identities and relationships with the world around them. The Linguistic Society of America classifies sociolinguistics as the investigation of how “language use symbolically represents fundamental dimensions of social behavior and human interaction.” Broadly, sociolinguistics looks at language’s relationship to and function within society.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2020-05
Agent
- Author (aut): Hill, Taylor
- Thesis director: Howard, Pamela
- Committee member: Rines, Olivia
- Contributor (ctb): Department of English
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College