Meets with CMCL C727.  Folklore enrollment limited to 7. 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 ethnographic 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.

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1.  Two brief papers (ca. 6-8 pp.): (a) an ethnographic 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.