Course Title:
Linguistics
Course Description:
Examines how linguists have begun to map out the part of our mental space devoted to language. Their inquiry centers on several questions: What do people know when they know a language? How does that knowledge get there? How is it organized? This course concentrates on all three. Explores some of the rules that we unconsciously follow as language users, which results in a new way of thinking about language. With this new perspective, we move on to issues that are often the topic of social and political debates: gender in language, dialects (for instance, Boston English, Chicano English, and African-American English or Ebonics), standards and attitudes, and nature vs. nurture, among others.
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