Norwegian Sign Language - theoretical and practical skills 4

- Visual discourse structures
- Sign creation
- Discourse as context
- Time references
- Idiolects, sociolects, dialects.

Knowledge
Candidates
- have knowledge about linguistic nuances and variation related to different contexts and user groups
- have knowledge about different strategies to express linguistic content

Skills
Candidates
- can use different linguistic structures to express simple discourse content
- can understand and express the main content of complex utterances about both concrete and abstract themes
- can communicate spontaneously and effortlesslyl in Norwegian Sign Language
- can produce clear and varied expressions and express their positions about a large variety of themes

General competencies
Candidates
- can communicate knowledge about linguistic structures in Norwegian Sign Language as compared to other signed languages
- can analyze fluency and disfluencies in signed communication
- can evaluate various linguistic structures in different contexts

Lectures, reading of course materials, individual and group work with both theoretical and practical exercises, group and class discussions, creating discourse in Norwegian Sign Language, presentations in class, video analyses.