Description
Language research helps us better understand how and why people speak and write the way they do. In English 225, we’ll investigate regional and ethnic dialects, language variation and change, code-switching, language, and language policy. Together we’ll cover every major area in the field of linguistics – phonetics/phonology, morphology, lexicology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics – to better understand how the ways we speak and write are correlated with our nationality, geography, gender, race, social class, and sexuality. Learning more about linguistics will help you fall in love with language in ways you didn’t know were possible!