Language and Power
This course explores notions of power as they emerge and are constructed in language in interaction, ways in which linguistic exchanges can express relations of power, and the role that power can play in the structure of human communicative interaction. Readings include both ethnographic studies and theoretical work about language and power across a range of disciplines and cultures. We will look at data from several settings and collaboratively analyze it in terms of the concepts and issues examined in the readings and in class discussions.