LT5904 · Language and Culture in Society

This course aims to (i) enable students to explore the ways in which language and culture are mutually embedded in one another and can be advantageously studied in a social context; (ii) increase awareness of discourse both as a means of cultural and social reproduction and resistance; (iii) enhance students' skills in critiquing cultural and social issues by means of rigorous linguistic analysis; (iv) equip students as a new generation of critical-thinking analysts, translators, and linguists.