HISTORIC AND SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE PUERTO RICAN DEAF CULTURE

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This course explores the history of the American Sign Language, the different Artificial Sign Systems and their linguistic relation to the Puerto Rican Sign Language. It also considers the sociolinguistics aspects by which the deaf people identify themselves as a linguistic minority group. This course also includes an anal ysis of the development of Puerto Rican Sign Language and its historical sociopolitical status. The analysis of this history is based on research of both American and Puerto Rican Sign Language. In this course we discuss the reasons why Deaf people have be en considered a linguistic minority.