ANT 2500 - Anthropology of Language

Credits: 3 (3 + 0)

Prerequisite(s): Preassessment Placement Tests: Reading and Writing (minimum performance standard scores)

Description: This course provides an introduction to the concepts and methods of linguistic anthropology. Topics include language and culture, langauge structure, the origins of language, linguistic diversity, and language ideologies. The course also provides opportunities to observe and record speech and other communicative behaviors; identify the sequential organization of talk; and determine how language reflects and creates social identities, relationships, and realities.