SLA 226 LANGUAGE IN CULTURE

Introduction to linguistic anthropology with a focus on language use in society. Topics include language ideology, pragmatics and metapragmatics, language as an identity marker, language differentiation (e.g., class/race/gender stratifications), the social life of utterances from speech genres to textualizations, indexicality, the dynamics of language change, and language as a detonational code and system of signs. Readings include de Saussure, Peirce, Boas, Sapir, Bakhtin, Jakobson, Austin, Searle, Bourdieu, Anderson, and Silverstein.

Credits

4

Notes

Students participating in the foreign language section will receive one additional credit hour, pass/not passed marking.

Cross Listed Courses

This is the same course as ANT 226/LIN 226.

Registration Restrictions

Open to juniors and seniors, and to others with permission of the instructor.

Enrollment Limit

Enrollment limited to 28 students.

Attributes

MOIB