Sign Language
If you already know Swedish Sign Language, you can study sign language linguistics at our department. If you don’t yet know it, you can take Swedish Sign Language for beginners. Please see the Swedish webpage for more information.
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Subject description
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Courses and programmes
There are no courses or programs offered in English in this subject.
Degree
Research
At the Department of Linguistics, we have been researching sign language since the early 1970s.
Today our research is mainly about linguistically describing signed languages and in particular Swedish Sign Language (SSL).
Our research on the multilingualism in the deaf and hard of hearing concerns questions about deaf language learners in general and deaf Swedish language learners in particular. For example, we study similarities and differences between deaf and hearing second language learners.
We are also interested in issues regarding the need for bilingualism that the deaf and hard of hearing people have in different situations.
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Department of Linguistics
Student Office
Visiting addressRoom C 378, floor 3
Visiting hoursTuesdays 9–10,
Wednesdays 13–15,
Thursdays 13–16
Phone hoursTuesdays 9–10,
Wednesdays 13–15,
Thursdays 9–11 and 13–16