ANT 290 - Language and Culture

(3) GS, S

Approaches and perspectives of linguistic anthropology to explore language structure, social functions, and geographical and historical variation. Analysis of the relationship between linguistic categories and patterns of culture and cultural values. Attention to the ways language reflects and influences perception and worldview. Examination of language and literacy ideologies, and language as social action with attention to social status, social identities, power, and linguistic and cultural change. Graded ABCDE