Linguistic Diversity

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Linguistic Diversity

• Issues for a Global Community

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Culture

• Ethnocentrism
• Cultural Relativism

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Language

• Gestural v. Spoken Language
• Evolution of Speech

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Linguistics

• Historical
• Descriptive
• Sociolinguistics

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Linguistic Anthropology

• Blending of Fields
• Holism and Relativism

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Linguistic Relativity v. Universal Language

• Pre-test Exercise
• Universalism
• Chomskys Deep Structure
• Berlin-Kay Color Terms
• Linguistic Relativity
• Whorfian Theory
• Post-test Exercise

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Stratification/Colonization/ Globalization

• Colonization and Political Hegemony
• Lingua Franca
• marginalization of indigenous languages

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Stratification (continued)

• What's Lost?
• loss of language loss culture
• loss of culture destruction of the environment
• Case Studies

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Linguistic Survival

• Multilingualism, Diglossia, and Code Switching
• Pidgin Languages, Creoles

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The Future?

• Language Planning
• Formalizing Bilingual Identity
• Intercultural Communication
• Closing Exercise