Ethngrphy of Comm: Mthd & Thry

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This course explores human communication from an ethnographic perspective. It does so from a "discourse-centered" approach that conceptualizes language as meaningful social action situated in particular contexts used strategically by social actors. Building upon this framework, we will engage the ethnography of communication as both a particular theoretical orientation and a specific methodological approach to language use. Areas of emphasis include: relationships between linguistic forms and social functions, ethnography of speaking, communicative competence, multiple layering of context, performer/audience relationships, intentionality, and ideology. Prerequisites: Anthropology 104 or Linguistics 114. FRENCH.