Above section meets with CMCL C229. Social life is a communicative
achievement, accomplished through the communicative acts of its members.  To
be a member of society, then, is to be able to communicate in socially
appropriate and understandable ways, the most basic of which are ways of
speaking.  Who we are, what we do, how, when, where, and under what
circumstances we do it all rest on ways of speaking: think of the
differences between talking like a man and talking like a woman, speaking
with an eastern accent and speaking with a southern accent, making a speech
and greeting a friend, participating in a business meeting and participating
in a religious service, telling a joke and making a promise, talking to your
boss and talking to your cat.  Moreover, ways of speaking vary from one
culture to another: a greeting in Korea is very different from a greeting in
Ghana or Brazil or the U.S.  In this course, we will explore the forms,
functions, and meanings of ways of speaking in our own and other cultures.
We will do so by means of readings, media presentations, empirical projects,
and classroom discussion.

Students will be evaluated on the basis of a series of short writing
assignments (in and out of class), some of which will be tied to class
presentations.

Fulfills a COAS Arts and Humanities, Traditions and Ideas distribution
requirement.