LING 3610W - Language and Culture

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University of Connecticut-Avery Point

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(244W) First semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800; open to juniors or higher. Anderson, Bar-Shalom The study of language, culture, and their relationship. Topics include the evolution of the human language capacity; the principles of historical language change including reconstruction of Indo-European and Native American language families; writing systems; linguistic forms such as Pidgins and Creoles arising from languages in contact; the interaction between language and political systems, the struggle for human rights, gender, ethnicity, and ethnobiology. CA 2. CA 4-INT.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uconn.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 486-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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