ANT 2500Anthropology of Language

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Prerequisites: Minimum performance standard scores on reading and writing preassessment placement tests. This course provides an introduction to the concepts and methods of linguistic anthropology. Topics include language and culture, language structure, the origins of language, language change, linguistic diversity and language ideologies. The course also provides opportunities to observe and record speech and other communicative behaviors; identify the sequential organization of talk; and determine how language reflects and creates social identities, relationships, and realities.