Transnational Life of Language

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This course will explore transnationalism as one of the most important effects of globalization and a focal domain of interest in the study of new forms of identity construction and communication. It examines a wide variety of transnational issues such as how globalized economies determine new interactions between centers and peripheries; global models of education and social advancement as a result of students traveling transnationally; urban centers being transformed into super-diverse sites of encounters of peoples from a variety of cultural and linguistic background; the importance of the new globalizing media in allowing displaced populations to stay in touch and the formation of virtual communities; how the construction of transnational identities is negotiated within these transnational scenes. Prerequisite: At least one LING course at the 200 level or above.