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2015-2016 Academic Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ANT 365 - Fighting Words: Conflict, Discourse, and Power

4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course is a seminar in linguistic anthropology. It focuses on conflict and power embedded in social uses of language and analyzes them in a variety of contexts. It highlights both interactional and institutional aspects of discourse and the ways in which they are implicated in reproduction of social relationships.

Prerequisite: ANT 260 ANT 265 , or ANT 280 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: French