African American speech community: culture, language ideology and social face -- Forms of speech: verbal styles, discourse and interaction -- Language norms and practices -- When women speak: how and ...

When we talk about civil discourse, we often hear that term as a call to discuss controversial topics with a level of tact and grace that dignifies and respects our conversational counterpart. We ...

Ecolinguistic discourse and language ecology examine the complex interplay between language use and the ecosystems—both natural and social—in which it is situated. Emerging in the early 1970s with the ...

Language, materiality and social discourse converge in a dynamic field of study that examines how words, objects and visual forms collaborate to shape meaning in society. Rather than treating language ...

This is an interdisciplinary course, which blends linguistics, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and political thought for the purpose of exploring the concept of 'language' and its role in the ...