Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Academic Catalog [Published Catalog]

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LING 000/2220 - Language and Society (3 cr.)



Description
This course deals with the relation between language and society. It tackles issues pertaining to the relation between our gender and the way we talk, and how does our social background affect the way we speak and judge others’ way of speaking. The following questions will be covered in the course
What is a linguistic community?
How does language reflect our identity?
Is our gender reflected through language or constructed through language?
Is there a relation between language and religion? Language and race? Language and social class? Language and education? Language and media?



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