Language, Linguistics, and Discrimination

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This course focuses on the relationship between language, linguistics, and discrimination and how language prejudice perpetuates social inequality. After learning about dialects, standard languages, and standard language ideology, students will develop a deeper understanding of what language discrimination looks like and how it surfaces in everyday activities. Students will learn to recognize and critically examine judgments in which language plays a key role. Course material will draw on work from leading researchers in the field of language and discrimination as well as recent controversies closely connected to language issues.