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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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The course focuses on language as a social construct and its importance and constitutive function in culture, appropriation, and performance of gender within and across traditional and national lines. The purpose of this course is to study, analyze and critique theories concerning the discursive construction of gender identity(s) and forms of representation of cultures. It will explore the relationship between power and powerful speech through reviews and critiques of theories of language, culture, and identity as they relate to gender, and nationalism. In particular, we will focus on how language and identity are constructed and mediated in literature, film and other media. Finally we will explore language and discourse surrounding women's language as well as language discourse styles used in the construction of regional, national, and global communities. |
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