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Apr 20, 2024
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T3 4830 - Language, Culture and Sport
In this course, we will explore the interface of language and culture. Language is a symbolic system through which we communicate our experience of the world to others. Culture is a set of beliefs and actions through which we, in concert with others in a community of practice, enact a common understanding of our experiences of the world as they are now, as we understand them to have been in the past, and how we imagine them to be in the future. The context of culture that this course uses to illustrate the connection between language and culture is that of sport. Sport is a community of practice in which language is used to report on sporting events, express opinions, and express support for a team through chants, etc. We are interested in how language is used in the specific culture of sport and how it expresses both individual, group and national identity. By the end of this course, students will be better able to understand how culture is expressed through language.
Requisites: 3 hours in (ANTH or LING or PETE or REC or SASM) and Sr only
Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will better understand the relationship of language and culture and how they as individuals contribute to these issues.
- Students will develop an awareness of the values implicit in sport both for society as a whole and for themselves as individuals and the ability to critically evaluate those values.
- Students will develop the ability to synthesize complex intellectual and social issues in the understanding of sports fan behavior.
- Students will develop the ability to weave together elements of language, culture, and sport in order to illuminate issues such identity and othering.
- Students will have a better understanding of sport as a social phenomenon and how sport can be understood as culture.
- Students will learn how to do collaborative empirical research in linguistics and to present their results through both oral and written communication.
- Students will understand how communities of practice organized around sport can influence language use.
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