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Language and Culture
The ability to communicate through elaborate linguistic and symbolic systems is part of what makes humans social beings. Across cultures, different communication styles flourish at various levels of complexity in terms of language use and semiotic resources. These resources include gesture, space, body adornment, intonation and other forms of non-verbal communication. Language and Culture is concerned with the linguistic, discourse and symbolic systems that construct and represent social life and culture. Courses under this category are concerned with how language use constructs, constitutes and represents society and culture. |
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This seminar introduces students to ethnographic methods and the study of discourse and interaction. It examines representative scholarship from fields of anthropology, sociolinguistics and the ethnography of communication. The course also explores the impact of ethnography on research and field methods and how the results are used to validate knowledge across disciplines. Particular attention is paid to theoretical developments including the relationship of ethnography of communication to such disciplines as anthropology, linguistics, communications and sociology. The focus of the course will be the integration of ethnography with other research techniques for the documentation of communication and its role in the establishment and management of social encounters. |
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