ANTH 2065 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
This course will examine the relationship between language and culture and the culture of conversation. We will look at language as a natural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. Utilizing an anthropological perspective, we will concentrate on socio-linguistics or how language works in everyday life. We will also look at people who speak the same language but have problems in communication due to differences in class, age, gender and/or ethnicity. Topics to be covered include: language acquisition, discourse analysis, language and power, linguistic relativity and American Sign Language.