ANTHRO 4596 - Socio-Cultural Ecologies of Language

Institution:

Temple University

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Description:

This is one of the courses that meet the capstone requirement for the general anthropology undergraduate major. This is also a writing-intensive course, and it is designed for advanced undergraduate anthropology students interested in the mutually-constitutive intersections between language, culture, and social interaction. This course focuses on contemporary linguistic anthropology, as an autonomous sub-discipline, with its own research agenda and methods. The course readings feature a variety of book-length, linguistic anthropology ethnographies, as well as more general theoretical pieces that will be useful for considering different approaches. Through specific case studies drawn from a variety of ethnographic settings, this course explores how language structures and communicative practices are powerful semiotic resources for individual social actors and communities. Also, using the resources of the Linguistic Anthropology Laboratory, students will analyze data and examine how the socio-cultural organization of language use is not a mere reflection of pre-existing social structures and cultural practices, but is in fact constitutive of the latter.

Credits:

3.00

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Prerequisites:

ENGLISH 0802 and ANTHRO 2507 and one Methods in Anthropology course and three Anthropology courses at 3000-level; or permission of the instructor

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.TEMPLE.EDU

Phone Number:

(215) 204-7000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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