printer friendly pageLINGUIST 52N: Spoken Sexuality: Language and the Social Construction of Sexuality (FEMGEN 52N)
The many ways language is used in the construction of sexuality and sexual identity. How language is used as a resource for performing and perceiving sexual identity. Drawing on linguistic analyses of pronunciation, word choice, and grammar, questions such as: Is there a gay accent? Why isn't there a lesbian accent? How do transgendered people modify their linguistic behavior when transitioning? How are unmarked (heterosexual) identities linguistically constructed? Sexuality as an issue of identity, as well as of desire. Iconic relations between elements of language such as breathy voice quality and high pitch, and aspects of desire such as arousal and excitement. How language encodes ideologies about sexuality; how language is used to talk about sexuality in public discourses about gay marriage and bullying, as well as in personal narratives of coming out. How language encodes dominant ideologies about sexuality, evident in labels for sexual minorities as well as terminology for sex acts. Discussions of readings, explorations of how sexuality is portrayed in popular media, and analyses of primary data. Final research paper on a topic of student choice.
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| Units: 3
Instructors:
Podesva, R. (PI)
LINGUIST 65: African American Vernacular English (AFRICAAM 21)
The English vernacular spoken by African Americans in big city settings, and its relation to Creole English dialects spoken on the S. Carolina Sea Islands (Gullah), in the Caribbean, and in W. Africa. The history of expressive uses of African American English (in soundin' and rappin'), and its educational implications. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
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| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
LINGUIST 110: Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Differences in the sounds of the world's languages and how these sounds are made by the human vocal tract. Theories that account for cross-linguistic similarities in the face of differences.
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| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
Instructors:
Anttila, A. (PI)
;
Calder, J. (TA)
LINGUIST 121: Crosslinguistic Syntax
A data-driven introduction to the methods of syntactic analysis, and their results. Emphasis is on understanding how languages are systematically alike and different in their basic sentence structure. Focuses on building up syntactic argumentation skills via the collective development of a partial formal theory of sentence structure, which attempts to model native speaker knowledge. Draws on data from a diverse array of the world's languages, including but not limited to English. Enrollment in the discussion section is required. Prerequisites: Linguistics 1, or Linguistics 120, or permission of instructor. Satisfies the WIM requirement for Linguistics majors.
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| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-FR
Instructors:
Harizanov, B. (PI)
;
Collins, J. (TA)
LINGUIST 130A: Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (LINGUIST 230A)
Linguistic meaning and its role in communication. Topics include ambiguity, vagueness, presupposition, intonational meaning, and Grice's theory of conversational implicature. Applications to issues in politics, the law, philosophy, advertising, and natural language processing. Those who have not taken logic, such as
PHIL 150
or 151, should also enroll in 130C. Pre- or corequisite: 120, 121, consent of instructor, or graduate standing in Linguistics.
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| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
LINGUIST 130C: Logic Laboratory (LINGUIST 230E)
Typically taken in conjunction with 130A/230A.
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| Units: 1
Instructors:
Kessler, S. (TA)
;
Nadathur, P. (TA)
LINGUIST 141: Language and Gesture
History of work on gesture, gestural systems associated with particular languages/cultures, and with specific activities - music, sports, traffic management, stock exchanges, etc. Examine gesture developmentally and how gesture is represented in painting and animation.
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| Units: 3
Instructors:
Clark, E. (PI)
LINGUIST 157: Sociophonetics (LINGUIST 257)
The study of phonetic aspects of sociolinguistic variation and the social significance of phonetic variation. Acoustic analysis of vowels, consonants, prosody, and voice quality. Hands-on work on collaborative research project. Prerequisite: 110 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-4
Instructors:
Podesva, R. (PI)
LINGUIST 160: Introduction to Language Change
Principles of historical linguistics:, the nature of language change. Kinds and causes of change, variation and diffusion of changes through populations, differentiation of dialects and languages, determination and classification of historical relationships among languages, the reconstruction of ancestral languages and intermediate changes, parallels with cultural and genetic evolutionary theory, and implications of variation and change for the description and explanation of language in general. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics.
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| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Kiparsky, P. (PI)
LINGUIST 180: From Languages to Information (CS 124, LINGUIST 280)
Extracting meaning, information, and structure from human language text, speech, web pages, genome sequences, social networks, or any less structured information. Methods include: string algorithms, edit distance, language modeling, naive Bayes, inverted indices, vector semantics. Applications such as question answering, sentiment analysis, information retrevial, text classification, social network models, machine translation, genomic sequence alignment, spell checking, speech processing. Prerequisite:
CS103,
CS107,
CS109.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Jurafsky, D. (PI)
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