ANTH-L 200 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (3 CR.)
An introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology, the social scientific study of language. Examines how languages reflect cultures, how language use reproduces culture(s), how linguistic categories relate to categories of thought, and how linguistic variation both reflects and shapes social categories such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity.
1 classes found
Spring 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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LEC | 3 | 3383 | Closed | 11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m. | TR | SB 150 | Suslak D |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 3383: Total Seats: 75 / Available: 0 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- IUB GenEd S&H credit
- COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inq
- IUB GenEd S&H credit
- COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
This course provides an introduction to linguistic anthropology - the social scientific study of language. We will examine how the languages that people speak reflect their cultural traditions, how the use of language reproduces and transforms those traditions, how categories of language are related to categories of thought, and how linguistic variation both reflects and helps shape social categories such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity. While this is primarily a lecture course, class sessions integrate discussion, as well as individual and partnered exercises practicing the methods of linguistic anthropology. In addition to in-class examinations assessing your understanding of the material, work for the course includes brief weekly reading responses, a series of problem sets that will give you experience with the methods of formal linguistic analysis, and two short essays in which you will engage critically with readings for the course in a more structured essay format.