LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY.

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Pre-requisites: sophomore standing. This course explores the human condition through the study of language in real-life social contexts. It explores language’s relationship to various forms of human action, as a constitutive feature of the building of human communities, and as a differentiating factor within human communities associated with stratification and inequality. Topics include performance, identity, and literacy. Basic ethnographic methods in the study of language-in-action will also be discussed.