Course Details
Course offered Autumn 2010
Honors 397 B: Ways of Meaning: Universal and Culture Specific Aspects of Language (SSc)
Honors 397 B: Ways of Meaning: Universal and Culture Specific Aspects of Language (SSc)
SLN 20285 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 10 students
Limit: 10 students
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Cross-listed with SLAV 425 A (SLN 18630)
This course addresses how people talk to each other in different languages, to what extent the language we speak determines who we are, and the relationship between language and thought, culture, & national identity. We will discuss moral concepts, friendship and love, freedom, homeland, politeness and rudeness, and gender.
Course website: http://faculty.washington.edu/dziwirek/slav425/slav425.shtml