SOCI 409 - Language and Society

3 Credits
3 hours per week.

This course introduces students to selected linguistic characteristics which mark the world’s major language families and to the analytical study of language as related to socialization, social solidarity, conflict, and ethnic, class, and sex markers, and to collective behavior. Attention is also given to language fads and to the social adaptability of language in situations ranging from the formal to the intimate and from the highly ritualized to the ordinary as well as to its expression through gestures, body movement, and the use of space.

Offered (AS NEEDED)