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.
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