Coursework will involve not only learning about linguistic approaches to examining language online, but also learning to put yourself in another's shoes to investigate issues of ethical problem-solving. This course will also offer students practice in identifying a range of perspectives on ethical issues in linguistics pertaining to both researchers as well as citizens in online spaces.
To achieve this goal, students will examine research from various sub-fields of linguistics, including semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. Students will look at the language of text messaging, social media, and other genres of online interaction to understand both the structural and social functions of digital communication from a linguistic perspective. This course focuses on how language is used online and investigates different forms of electronically-mediated communication. Gen Ed Attribute: Diversity Requirement, Humanities Distributive Requirement. The course aims to introduce students to the basic principles of critical discourse analysis, critical stylistics, and sociolinguistics, enabling them to conduct their investigations of issues related to language and power as well as foster an informed and reasoned openness to, and understanding of, difference. Students will look at marginalized groups, including women, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, speakers of low prestige dialects, such as Pittsburghese and African American English, and low prestige languages, such as creoles and pidgins, and they will examine how these groups use language to resist and subvert dominant ideologies. It also examines how these marginalized groups resist oppression and use language as an agent to speak against and subvert exclusion and discrimination in the United States and globally. It examines the discourse of politics, the language of advertising and journalism, and the discourse of institutions and organizations to uncover ideological biases towards socioeconomic class sexuality and gender and race, ethnicity, and age. This course investigates the relationship between language and power as it is manifested in a variety of contexts. Gen Ed Attribute: Humanities Distributive Requirement.ĭistance education offering may be available. Other topics covered include: the origin of language among humans language fragmentation and the birth of languages language families language contact language endangerment and death the main writing systems and the meaning of bilingualism and multilingualism. The core of the semester consists of a panoramic view of the world's main language families and the main languages in each of them. How many languages are there in the world, where are they spoken, and where do they come from? Why are some languages very similar, while others are very different? Why have some languages disappeared, while other languages are thriving? This course presents a general survey of language diversity in the world from the perspectives of language structure, language use, and language history. Language diversity is a central part of the human experience.
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