Language Society

AY2017/2018 Semester 2

This course surveys the interactions between language and other areas of human behavior. Students will examine the way language works in relation to communication and culture, interaction between language structure and social structure and social norms (sociolinguistics), the relationship between linguistic knowledge and cultural knowledge (anthropological linguistics), the interplay of language and the mind. Special case studies on the Chinese Language and/or the language context in Singapore may be designed.