LING 114Lang,Cult&Communic in US (LEC)

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Description: Explores some of the ways in which language, communicative behavior and culture are intertwined. Examines such topics as the complexity and multi-functionality of everyday communicative behavior; linguistic and cultural socialization of children; some relationships among culture, language, literacy and education; the relationships between communicative behavior and social identities; language and gender; language and social hierarchy; and inter-ethnic/inter-cultural communication. Approaches these theoretical issues through research and readings on language and culture in the United States. Format may vary by sections: Lecture and discussion; students are expected to attend the discussion critique as well as the lecture