Language and Identity
Investigate the central importance of language to the formation of people's regional, social class, gender, ethnic, and age identities through psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, sociophonetics, and popular media sources. Examine how socially driven spoken language variation is created and how it is perceived. Linguistics 350 (Topic: Language and Identity) and 351 may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Prerequisites & course information
Investigate the central importance of language to the formation of people's regional, social class, gender, ethnic, and age identities through psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, sociophonetics, and popular media sources. Examine how socially driven spoken language variation is created and how it is perceived. Linguistics 350 (Topic: Language and Identity) and 351 may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027