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1. 175-234/334 Linguistics, Faculty of Arts.
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175-234/334 Language and 'Race'

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years.

Coordinator: Bill McGregor.

Prerequisite: At least two first year semester-length subjects drawn from the following: Linguistics, English, Anthropology, History, Australian Studies, Politics and Sociology.

Contact: One lecture and one two hour seminar/tutorial a week.

Objectives:

By the end of the subject students should:

• understand and be able to identify ways in which speakers and writers deploy linguistic options to construct racial 'others';
• be familiar with ways in which hidden agendas of a text may be uncovered by examination of its language;
• have an understanding of relationships between 'racist', 'sexist' and 'classist' language and discourse.

Content:

A study of ways in which 'race' and race relations are constructed and reproduced by language in various types of texts, and the relevance of this to wider social processes of 'racism'.

Assessment:

Two assignments and an essay, 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• None, but the following are particularly recommended:
• Dijk, T. van 1987 Communicating racism: ethnic prejudice in thought and talk. Newbury Park: Sage
• Djik, T. van 1991 Racism and the press London & New York: Routledge
• Djik, T. van & Smitherman-Donaldson, G. 1988 Discourse and discrimination. Detroit: Wayne State University Press

1. Linguistics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p128) : Next:175-236 | Prev:175-229

2. English Language, Faculty of Arts (v3, p65) : Next:175-236 | Prev:175-225

175-234/334 Language and 'Race'

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years.

Coordinator: Bill McGregor.

Prerequisite: At least two first year semester-length subjects drawn from the following: Linguistics, English, Anthropology, History, Australian Studies, Politics and Sociology.

Contact: One lecture and one two hour seminar/tutorial a week.

Objectives:

By the end of the subject students should:

• understand and be able to identify ways in which speakers and writers deploy linguistic options to construct racial 'others';
• be familiar with ways in which hidden agendas of a text may be uncovered by examination of its language;
• have an understanding of relationships between 'racist', 'sexist' and 'classist' language and discourse.

Content:

A study of ways in which 'race' and race relations are constructed and reproduced by language in various types of texts, and the relevance of this to wider social processes of 'racism'.

Assessment:

Two assignments and an essay, 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• None, but the following are particularly recommended: Dijk T van 1987 Communicating racism: ethnic prejudice in thought and talk. Newbury Park: Sage Djik T van 1991 Racism and the press London & New York: Routledge
• Djik T van & Smitherman-Donaldson G 1988 Discourse and discrimination. Detroit: Wayne State University Press

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2. English Language, Faculty of Arts (v3, p65) : Next:175-236 | Prev:175-225

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