175-020 Language & Culture

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175-020 Language & Culture
Note	Formerly available as 175-225/325. Students who have completed 175-225 or 175-325 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.
Availability	2nd and 3rd year
Credit Points	12.5
Coordinator	Dr Barbara Kelly
Semester	Not Offered (view timetable)
Contact	Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week. There will be no tutorial in the first week of semester
Subject Description	This subject is an introduction to the ways in which culture is represented in language and the role of the cultural component in language. Topics include the relation between language, culture and thought; universalist versus relativist views of language; culture-specific impacts on meaning and metaphor.
Generic Skills	have developed their ability to imagine and get inside the mental world of other cultures; have developed their ability to step outside their own language and culture; have developed their ability to articulate concepts important in other cultures.
Assessment	An assignment of 1000 words 20% (due mid-semester), an essay of 1500 words 40% (due in week 9) and a final exam of two hours 40% (at the end of semester).
Prescribed Texts	WA Foley, Anthropological Linguistics. Blackwells, 1997.

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