This course:
- Provides students with an understanding of the study of language as a social phenomenon;
- Draws examples from international contexts of language use to examine the interrelationship of language and social context, how language is actually used, people’s language attitudes, and how language use and language attitudes are often opposed;
- Considers factors such as age, gender, social class, race, ethnicity, and style, and the relationship of these factors to linguistic differentiation and the construction and display of identities.
- Teacher: Khatuna Buskivadze