Includes critical analysis of theory and methodology of social science research on gender and language. This course introduces students to the diversity of human language and the principles of linguistic classification. In surveying the world's languages, we will focus on the structure and social situation of a representative language for each geographic region covered. We will also consider the outlook for linguistic diversity into the 21st century. This course provides an introduction to the people, cultures, and histories of the Middle East, through an examination of language-use in contemporary Middle Eastern societies.
Readings contrast ethnographic with novelistic representations of language, society, and identity.
This is a lecture and discussion course. A number of feature films from the Middle East are incorporated into the course material. Requirements include three short essays, a book review, and a research paper. No description available at this time. We try to figure out the phonological and grammatical structure of the language based on data collected from a native speaker consultant in class.