Language and Culture

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) The course examines how language encodes cultural dialects from different regions and time periods within various social and cultural contexts. Selected British, American, and Canadian dialects are studied from specific historical and contemporary periods. Social factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, class, socio-economic, educational, political, and religious factors are considered from a sociolinguistic perspective. The course also examines language and dialects related to various registers, such as student-teacher classroom exchange, job interviews, work talk, and casual conversation. To examine the differences in these registers, functional and systemic perspectives of communication linguistics are introduced. Cross-listed: ANTH-2406(3) and LING-2101(3). Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and ANTH-2406 | LING-2101.