Anthropological Linguistics

Course

Anthropological Linguistics

Course code

S211G017

Teacher’s name

Jianing Chen

Title

Associate Professor

School

Liberal Arts and Law

Semester

2

Hours

32

Credit

2

Teaching method

Lecture (21 hours), Seminar (7 hours), Fieldwork (4 hours)

Course Introduction

Anthropological Linguistics focuses on the interdisciplinary edge between cultural anthropology (also known as social anthropology, especially in Europe) and Linguistics, it studies their overlap areas such as "language, thought, culture and their relationship."

The purpose of this course is to set up a new perspective from which graduate students are supposed able to master the basic theories and research methods of this emerging discipline, helping them establish an overall cultural outlook that combined with social reality. Learners may able to look at the relationship among science and human languages and cultures with a large social view and a human background. It will study languages and cultures in aim of gaining individual understanding, and research capacity of this discipline. The contents of this course includes fundamental theory lectures, references reading, class discussion on seminar, fieldwork practice, and writing reports and research papers.

Examination:

Fieldwork report (30%); Research paper (70%)

Teaching Materials

B. D. Miller, P. V. Esterik, J. V. Esterik, Cultural Anthropology, Pearson Education Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 2007.

Bibligraphy

1. Kottak, Conrad Phillip.Cultural anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2011. 14th Edition.

2. Kottak, Conrad Phillip.Cultural anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity, 12th edition，translated by Jianbo Huang, Jingwen Fang, Chinese Renmin University Press.

3. Haviland, W. A.Cultural anthropology, 10th edition, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2006.

4. Humboldt, Wilhelm von.On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species, Commercial Press, 1999.

5. Ma, Guanghai.Cultural anthropology, Shangdong University Press, 2006.

6. Lin, Huixiang.Cultural anthropology, Commercial Press, 2002.

7. Luo, Changpei.Language and Culture, Peking Press, 2004.

8. Dai, Zhaoming.Introduction to Cultural Linguistics, Language and Culture Press, 2005.