Course Schedule

Course Schedule:

Part 1: Introduction, Language, and Anthropology

Monday, August 29th

  • Introduction

Wednesday, August 31st

  • Alessandro Duranti, “Language as Culture in U.S. Anthropology: Three Paradigms,” 2003.

Monday, September 5th

  • No class. Labor Day.

Wednesday, September 7th

  • Alessandro Duranti (continued)

 

Part 2: Language, Culture, and Worldview

Monday, September 12th

  • Edward Sapir, “Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society,” 1929.

Wednesday, September 14th

  • Edward Sapir (continued)

Monday, September 19th

  • Benjamin Lee Whorf, “The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language,” (1941).
  • George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, “Metaphors We Live By,” 1990.

Wednesday, September 21st

  • Emily Martin, “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles,” 1991.

Monday, September 26th

  • No Class

Wednesday, September 28th

  • Carol Cohn, “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals,” 1987.

Thursday, September 29th (Monday Schedule)

  • Carol Cohn (continued)

Monday, October 3rd

  • Byron Good, “How Medicine Constructs its Objects,” in Medicine, Rationality, and Experience,

Wednesday, October 5th

  • No Class

Monday, October 10th

  • No Class

 

Part 3: Doing Things with Words

Wednesday, October 12th

  • Jillian Cavanaugh, “Language as Social Action,” 2020.

Monday, October 17th

  • Charis Thompson, “Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic,” 2001.

Wednesday, October 19th

  • Hortense Powdermaker, “First Month in Indianola,” in Stranger and Friend, 1966.

 

Part 4: Language and Race

Monday, October 24th

  • Jane Hill, “Language, Race, and White Public Space,” 1999

Wednesday, October 26th

  • Samy Alim, “Nah We Straight,” in Articulate While Black, 2012.

Monday, October 31st

  • Jonathan Rosa and Nelson Flores, “Undoing Appropriateness,” 2015.

Wednesday, November 2nd

  • Rosina Lippi-Green, “Teaching Children How to Discriminate,” in English with an Accent, 1997.

 

Part 5: Language and Identity

Monday, November 7th

  • Mary Bucholtz, “Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture,” in A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication, 2012.

Wednesday, November 9th

  • Benjamin Bailey, “The Language of Multiple Identities among Dominican Americans,” 2001.

 

Part 6: Multilingualism

Monday, November 14th

  • Penelope Eckert, “Diglossia: Separate and Unequal,” 1980.

Wednesday, November 16th

  • Jean Jackson, “Language Identity of the Colombian Vaupes Indians,” in Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking Richard Bauman and Joel Sherzer, 1974.

 

Part 7: Language Acquisition

Monday, November 21st

  • Bambi Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs, “Language Acquisition and Socialization,” 1984.

Wednesday, November 23rd

  • Netta Avineri, “Bridging the Language Gap,” 2015.

 

Part 8: Language and Capitalism

Monday, November 28th

  • Judith Irvine, “When Talk isn’t Cheap: Language and Political Economy,” 1989.

Wednesday, November 30th

  • Ilana Gershon, “I’m Not a Businessman, I’m a Business, Man,” 2016.

 

Monday, December 5th

  • Student Presentations

Wednesday, December 7th

  • Student Presentations