LAS440 Anthropological Linguistics

Survey of the concepts, methods, and historical foundations of anthropological linguistics, with an emphasis on language, culture and cognition; language variation: dialects, nonstandard forms of language and code switching: speech acts and the ethnography of communication; interethnic communication; discourse strategies; and literacy. Prerequisite: 100-200 level anthropology course. 5 quarter hours Counts in the Social Science or Humanities Area of General Education Requirements.

Distribution

GenEd-Humanities GenEd-Social Science