| source Duke (X) |
level |
department Linguistics (X) |
Introduction to the scientific study of linguistics and languages. Topics include the origin and nature of language, methods of historical and comparative linguistics, theories and schools of linguistics, empirical and descriptive approaches to the study of language, including phonology,
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"Spanish in Durham"
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Examination of Korean language in social and cultural contexts from sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological points of view. Focus on construction of cultural identities, social order and interpersonal relationships through everyday language use. Honorifics and language ideology, language and gender, regional and social variations, language contact and language policy in contemporary Korea. Sociolinguistics literature introducing conceptual frameworks and empirical research on specifics of language in use and synchronic and diachronic variations. Readings and class conducted in English
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This course explores language variation in American English, including the variables of region, class, ethnicity, gender, and style. The objectives of the
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"Linguistics and the Law" will consider some of the intersections of language and law and legal institutions. All issues considered will be examined from a thoroughly comparative approach, considering how different societies have dealt with the following issues: Language and national
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The theory of literature, arts ethnicity, modernity and
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We will survey twentieth-century theories of language as elaborated from the points of view of pragmatism, structuralism, behaviorism, transformationalism, constructivism, and neurobiology.
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