ANT 353 Language and Culture

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Readings

1. http://encarta.msn.com/column/dyinglanguagesmain.asp

This web site contains information on the extinction of languages.

2. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=140200

This page contains information on animal communication.

3. Sociolinguistics terms.

4. Class presentations (power points) and additional readings.

a. Basic ideas

b. Levels of structure

c. Language Acquisition

d. Sociolinguistics and Ethnomethodology

5. Notes on films

6. The Art of Being Schizophrenic

7. Wolof Ethnography of Speaking , Wolof Kingdoms

8. Sierra Leone Krio

9. As Ice Thaws

10. Gesture and Speech.

Notes on Readings

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