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Linguistics
LIN-545 Language as Social Practice
This course is a theoretical introduction to the study of language as social practice. It is social theory for those interested in language. It is also appropriate for anyone wishing to understand the place of language in recent social thought. There are no prerequisites. Topics include language and semiotics, speech acts and performativity, language and embodiment, relativity and difference, units and structures of participation, language and practice theory, discourse genres, and reference. Students will be expected to make their own connections in a final paper between the theories introduced in the course and their ¿home disciplines,¿ such as Deaf Studies, Interpreting, Education, Linguistics, and other, related fields.
Pre- or co-requisites: For UG students: LIN 301, 302; or Permission of Instructor; for Grad students: Permission of Instructor.
Program: Linguistics
Credit: 3
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LIN-850
Historical Linguistics
This course focuses on language change. Topics include…
Credits 3
LIN-855
Language Typology
In this course we survey the range of…
LIN-860
Language Variation
An examination of analytical methods used in the…
LIN-880
Guided Research Project
This course is required to be taken twice,…