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Topics vary each semester. Instructor: Staff
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Course examines language as a social practice, focusing on different aspects of its role in social life. Topics addressed include: language and social identity, such as ethnicity, social class, age, and gender; variation in language, including dialects, accents, and registers; multilingualism and language contact; new languages such as pidgins and creoles; language, culture, and intercultural communication; language and ideology; language in education and in the media. Through the discussion of these topics and homework including reading and small research projects, students are introduced to key concepts, theories, and methods in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. Instructor: staff
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Oral traditions and collective memory studied in social contact. Impact of writing on oral literature and culture, on society and cognitive activities. Basic knowledge of cognitive mechanisms; examples of various oral traditions. Instructor: Rubin
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"Critical Period" in language development, the role of 'motherese,' infant speech perception, innovative word creation, telegraphic speech, bilingualism and second language learning, learning to read, language, cognition and culture, and language pathology. Focus on learning to critically evaluate empirical research papers from various areas of language development. Appropriateness of hypotheses, methodology and analyses, and whether or not the data the researchers gather warrants the conclusions they draw. Instructor: Mazuka
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Theoretical approaches to the question of the interrelationship of gender and language including neurobiology, psychology, semiotics, feminist critical theory, philosophy of language, discourse analysis, and linguistic theory. Taught in English. Instructor: Andrews
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Examines the political role of language in societies as diverse as China, India, the former Soviet Union, the UK and the US. Looks at how state and non-state actors influence citizens' language practices, and their beliefs about language. Drawing on political theory, sociology and sociolinguistics, we look at how language policies reflect and produce sociopolitical realities. Topics covered include migration, citizenship, nationalism and decolonization. Open to students in the Focus Program only. Instructor: Price
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English language variation in the United States considered from a current sociolinguistic perspective. Social, regional, ethnic, gender, and stylistic-related language variation, along with models for describing and applying knowledge about language variation. Language variation focused on vernacular varieties of American English in general and on North Carolina in particular. C-L. Instructor: Butters
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Individual research and reading in a field of special interest, under the supervision of a faculty member, resulting in a substantive paper or written report containing significant analysis and interpretation of a previously approved topic. Consent of instructor and director of undergraduate studies required. Instructor: Staff
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See Linguistics 190A. Consent of instructor and director of undergraduate studies required. Instructor: Staff
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1.00 Credits
Will examine the interfaces between language, migration, and socio-political structures in the newly independent nations of Eurasia. While these interfaces have long historical antecedents in nation-state formations, their manifestations in the post-national, post-communist era are novel and complex. Understanding these new dynamics requires viewing language from a political-sociological perspective that takes into account the interplays between the local, the national and the global. Instructor: Price
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