ANTH 107 - Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

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    Offered: Spring Semester, Odd Years Thiscourseintroducesthecoreconceptsoflinguisticanthropology,stressing the interactions between language and culture and between language and socialidentity.Structurallinguisticsexploresthebioculturalbasisoflanguage, as well as the study of phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax. Historical linguistics presents a cross-cultural study of language origins, language change, language families, and dialects. Ethnolinguistics and sociolinguistics present the study of language acquisition and nonverbal communication,emphasizingtherelationshipbetweenlanguageandculture, and issues of language conservation and language loss. (GC) C-ID ANTH 130