ANTH 220 - Linguistic Analysis

2020-2021 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course provides theoretical and practical training in the analytic methods used by linguistic anthropologists and sociolinguists to study naturally occurring language use, “language in the wild.” Students learn to transcribe recorded interaction following established conventions and gain skills for describing discourse patterns. The course introduces several traditions of discourse analysis and conversation analysis and focuses on talk in institutional settings. Examples of themes covered in the course include: emergency service (911) calls, doctor-patient communication, courtroom discourse, and political news interviews.

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 120 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every Spring Semester