Sign Language
We offer courses in Swedish Sign Language for Beginners, Sign Language Linguistics, and Swedish as a Second Language for the Deaf. All courses are offered in Swedish Sign Language and Swedish and require documented proficiency in Swedish Sign Language and Swedish. Please see the Swedish course pages for more information.
Career opportunities
Please see the Swedish course pages for more information.
Courses and programmes
Degree
Please see the Swedish course pages for more information.
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.