Topic: Language Ideology - joint listed with FOLK F736

The concept of language ideology has emerged in recent scholarship as a
productive organizing principle for the integrative study of situated
language practices and larger social and political formations, including
hierarchies of inequality, rhetorics of legitimacy and structures of power
and authority. Language ideology has proven useful both as a frame of
reference for the ethnograpic and comparative analysis of ideological
systems and communicative practices in specific societies and as a
critical vantage point for the intellectual historiography of theories of
language. In this course, we will explore a range of perspectives on
language ideology that exploit both of these potentials.
Textbooks:
Bauman, Richard. 1983. Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and
Silence Among Seventeenth-Century Quakers. Repr. edn. 1998. London: Quaker
Home Service.

Kroskrity, Paul V., ed. 1999. Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities,
and Identities. Santa Fe: SAR Press

Kuipers, Joel C. 1998. Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia:
The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Schieffelin, Bambi B., Kathryn A. Woolard, and Paul V. Kroskrity, eds.
1998. Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.

Written work:
1. Two brief papers (ca. 6-8 pp.): (a) an ethnograpic exploration of
language ideology in a specific society; (b) a critical study of language
ideology in a theory of language.
2. An extended paper (at least 20 pp.) that expands upon (a) or (b) above.