3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Upper Division
Investigates the varieties of communication in human behavior, while exploring linguistics as a tool in social science research. Also considers origins of human language and speech, and relations of language with other aspects of culture, with societal phenomena and with individual cognition.
Learning Outcomes1Meet the Graduate School learning objectives of knowledge, communication, critical thinking, and ethical research through the goals listed here.
2Learn about theory in linguistic anthropology.
3Understand when and how various theoretical positions and logics of interpretation have emerged.
4Analyze a series of case studies that illustrate dominant positions and fissures in linguistic anthropological thought and practices.
5Gain an understanding of how theory works and how to work with different theories in their own research.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.