ANTH 2400 Language and Culture

TR 2:00-2:50 + obligatory discussion section

Nathan Wendte

The ways in which humans use and evaluate language are deeply ingrained in who we are and how we see the world both individually and collectively. This course introduces students to the study of language, culture, and society. No prior knowledge is assumed—we will consider topics such as how linguists analyze language data, how anthropologists link language and thought, how language is performed and received, and how our identities are reflected in and altered by linguistic behavior. Come curious! Linguistics Elective. Satisfies the College Non-Western perspectives requirement. Fulfills Cognitive Science Linguistics Area requirement.

ANTH 2410 Sociolinguistics

TR 11:00-12:15

Daniel Lefkowitz

Reviews key findings in the study of language variation. Explores the use of language to express identity and social difference. No background in linguistics is presupposed. Linguistics Elective.

ANTH 3450/7450 Native American Languages

TR 12:30-1:45

Armik Mirzayan

Introduces the native languages of North America and the methods that linguists and anthropologists use to record and analyze them. Examines the use of grammars, texts and dictionaries of individual languages and affords insight into the diversity among the languages. Satisfies the College Non-Western perspectives requirement. Fulfills Structure requirement for Linguistics.

ANTH 3490 Language and Thought

WF 10:00-10:50 + obligatory discussion section

Eve Danziger

There is almost always more than one way to think about any problem. But could speaking a particular language make some strategies and solutions seem more natural than others to individuals? Can we learn about alternative ways of approaching the external world by studying other languages? The classic proposal of linguistic relativity as enunciated by Benjamin Lee Whorf is examined in the light of recent cross-cultural psycholinguistic research. The class fulfills the Linguistics requirement for Anthropology majors, the Linguistics requirement for Cognitive Science majors, and the Theory requirement for Linguistics majors.

ANTH 3541/7541 Topics in Linguistics: Language Change

TR 9:30-10:45

Nathan Wendte

Along the span of history and across the globe, the one constant of human language is change. This course introduces the study and analysis of language change over time in a variety of domains and contexts. Students will learn how to identify and decode processes and results of historical language change and apply these skills to analyze data bearing on relationships and contacts between different languages and their speakers. This course fulfills the Historical requirement for Linguistics majors and counts as a Linguistics requirement for Cognitive Science majors.

ANTH 5470 Language and Identity

T 4:00-6:30

Nathan Wendte

In anthropology, where identity has become a central concern, language is seen as an important site for the construction of, and negotiation over social identities. In linguistics, reference to categories of social identity helps to explain language structure and change. This seminar explores the overlap between these converging trends by focusing on the notion of discourse as a nexus of cultural and linguistic processes. Instructor Consent required. Linguistics Elective.

ANTH 5475 Multimodal Interaction

TR 11:00-12:15

Mark Sicoli

Students build knowledge and practice of analysis of peoples' joint-engagement in embodied interactions. How does action weave together multiple sensory modalities into semiotic webs linking interactions with more durative institutions of social life? Course includes workshops on video recording, and the transcription and coding of verbal and non-verbal actions. Prior coursework in Linguistics, Anthropology or instructor permission recommended. Instructor Consent required. Linguistics Elective.

ANTH 7400 Linguistic Anthropology

MW 2:00-3:15

Lise Dobrin

An advanced introduction to the study of language from an anthropological point of view. No prior coursework in linguistics is expected, but the course is aimed at graduate students who will use what they learn in their own anthropologically-oriented research. Topics include an introduction to such basic concepts in linguistic anthropology as language in world-view, the nature of symbolic meaning, language and nationalism, universals and particulars in language, language in history and prehistory, the ethnography of speaking, the nature of everyday conversation, and the study of poetic language. The course is required for all Anthropology graduate students. It also counts toward the Theory requirement for Linguistics.

ASL 3450 Comparative Linguistics: ASL and English

TR 3:30-4:45

To Be Announced

Describes spoken English and ASL (American Sign Language) on five levels: phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, and discourse and compares/contrasts them using real-world examples. Describes major linguistic components and processes of English and ASL. Introduces basic theories regarding ASL structure. Emphasizes ASL's status as a natural language by comparing/contrasting similarities and unique differences between the two languages. Fulfills Structure requirement for Linguistics.

CLAS 3300/5300 Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics

MWF 2:00-2:50

Coulter George

Languages as superficially different as English, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit in fact all developed from a single "proto-language," called Proto-Indo-European. This course will explore the following questions: What was this proto-language like? How do we know what it was like? By what processes did it develop into the various daughter languages? How can we trace words as diverse as wit, idea, video, and Veda back to a common source? This course fulfills the Historical requirement for Linguistics majors

EDHS 4300/LING 7300 Psycholinguistics & Communication

TR 5:00-6:15

Filip Loncke

This course focuses on the psychological processes that underlie the acquisition and the use of language. There is an emphasis on the interaction between linguistic skills and other cognitive skills. Topics include learnability, microgenesis of speech, bilingualism and variation, and a psycholinguistic approach to breakdowns (i.e., language pathology). Linguistics Elective.

EDHS 4310 Exploring Linguistic Diversity

M 3:30-6:00

Filip Loncke

Students in this course will explore language variation within and between languages. The course will use the students’ personal experience and perceptions as a starting point to interpret and understand theories. The course will introduce central concepts such as language contact, language dominance, language policies, creolization, bilingualism, language diversification, language dispersal, dialect, idiolect, and sociolect. Most importantly the course will lead the students to identify and observe these dynamic linguistic forces in their own environment, in their communities, and in the wider world. The course will include a focus on policies that can influence linguistic variation. Linguistics Elective

EDIS 7840 Discourse Analysis in Education

Th 3:30-6:00

Chris Chang-Bacon

This course provides an introduction to discourse analysis theory and methodology as they relate to classrooms and other educational settings. Readings will provide an overview of discourse analysis approaches used in educational research, with a particular focus on micro-ethnographic and conversation-analytic approaches. Fieldwork and hands-on analysis of discourse will form a significant portion of the course. Linguistics Elective

LING 2430 Languages of the World

TR 4:00-4:50 + obligatory discussion section

Armik Mirzayan

An introduction to the study of language relationships and linguistic structures.  Topics covered the basic elements of grammatical description; genetic, areal, and typological relationships among languages; a survey of the world's major language groupings and the notable structures and grammatical categories they exhibit; and the issue of language endangerment. Prerequisite: One year of a foreign language or permission of instructor. Linguistics Elective

LING 3400/7400 Structure of English

MW 1:00-1:50 + obligatory discussion section

Janay Crabtree

In this community engaged course, UVA students work online with Virginia high school students while learning about descriptive grammar and methods of reasoning about linguistic structure.  Students will analyze problem sets and data of world languages to compare and contrast to English language structures. This course covers units of sound and phonemic transcriptions, word building/morphology and inflectional forms, lexical categories, basic sentence types, common phrase and clause patterns, and syntactic transformations.  In exploring structures, students (in groups) will take one aspect of English and research a question for a presentation geared toward VA high-school students who may never have heard about linguistics.  These research explorations include structure of English phonology, morphology, and syntax, with a focus on structural analysis and use of evidence. Students must be available one Saturday in November to participate in a community-engaged activity with high school students as well as work in research groups and present as a group on that Saturday. This course fulfills the structure requirement for Linguistics majors and graduate students and the Ling 3400 requirement for the TESOL Certificate. Fulfills Structure requirement for Linguistics.

LING 5410 Phonology

W 5:00-7:30

Armik Mirzayan

An introduction to the theory and analysis of linguistic sound systems. Covers the essential units of speech sound that lexical and grammatical elements are composed of, how those units are organized at multiple levels of representation, and the principles governing the relation between levels. Fulfills Theory Requirement for Linguistics.

LNGS 2240/7240 Southern American English

MW 8:30-9:45

Mark Elson

An examination of the structure, history, and sociolinguistics of the English spoken in the southeastern United States. Linguistics Elective.

LNGS 3250/7010 Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Analysis

MWF 11:00-11:50

Mark Elson

Introduces sign systems, language as a sign system, and approaches to linguistics description. Emphasizes the application of descriptive techniques to data.

SPAN 3200 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics

TR 5:00-6:15

Joel Rini

This course provides an introduction to core areas of linguistic analysis using Spanish. Areas covered include sounds of Spanish (phonetics & phonology), word formation (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), meaning of words, phrases, sentences, & larger chunks of discourse, also in social context (semantics & pragmatics), history of the Spanish language, regional & social variation (dialectology & sociolinguistics), & language acquisition. Instructor Consent required. Linguistics Elective.

SPAN 4200 History of the Language

TR 3:30-4:45

Joel Rini

The main objectives of the course are: (1) to offer the student an introduction to the development of Spanish, focusing on the major changes from Latin to Spanish through the study of historical grammar; (2) to explain the irregularities of Modern Spanish grammar; (3) to facilitate the reading Old Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 3200 and 3010, or 3000 and 3010, or departmental placement. Instructor Consent required. Fulfills the Historical requirement for Linguistics majors.

SPAN 4202 Hispanic Sociolinguistics

MW 3:30-4:45

Omar Velasquez Mendoza

This course examines the Spanish language within its social context by exploring—among others—the following topics: 1) language versus dialect; 2) the standard language; 3) linguistic variation and its main variables: geography, style, gender, age, etc.; 4) language acquisition as a social process; 5) language variation and language change. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 3200 and 3010, or SPAN 3000 and SPAN 3010, or departmental placement. Instructor Consent required. Linguistics Elective.

SPAN 4530 Special Topics Seminar: Untaming Spanish: Language, Power, and Identity

MW 2:00-3:15

Lorena Albert Ferrando

The goal of this course is to critically examine how language and systemic power relations are co-naturalized and how this linkage is constructed, manifested, and underpinned in our everyday language use and identity, as well as in our perception of other groups and speakers. We will focus on Spanish language environments (and in the US in particular) but the contents of the course are applicable to other languages and settings. Conducted in Spanish. Linguistics Elective.

ANTH 2400 | Language and Culture

MW 2:00-2:50 + obligatory discussion section

Nathan Wendte

The ways in which humans use and evaluate language are deeply ingrained in who we are and how we see the world both individually and collectively. This course introduces students to the study of language, culture, and society. No prior knowledge is assumed—we will consider topics such as how linguists analyze language data, how anthropologists link language and thought, how language is performed and received, and how our identities are reflected in and altered by linguistic behavior. Come curious! Linguistics Elective. Satisfies the College Non-Western perspectives requirement. Fulfills Cognitive Science Linguistics Area requirement.

ANTH 2415 | Language in Human Evolution

TR 3:00-3:50 + obligatory discussion section

Mark Sicoli

Examines the evolution of our use and capacity for language along with the development of human ways of cooperating in engaged social interaction. Course integrates cognitive, neurological, sociocultural, and biological aspects of language in comparative perspective. How is the familiar shape of language today the result of evolutionary and developmental processes involving the form, function, meaning and use of signs and symbols in social ecologies? Linguistics Elective. Fulfills Cognitive Science Linguistics Area requirement.

ANTH 2430| Languages of the World

TR 5:00-5:50 + obilgatory discussion section

Lise Dobrin

An introduction to the study of language relationships and linguistic structures.  Topics covered the basic elements of grammatical description; genetic, areal, and typological relationships among languages; a survey of the world's major language groupings and the notable structures and grammatical categories they exhibit; and the issue of language endangerment. Linguistics Elective. Prerequisite: One year of a foreign language or permission of instructor. Fulfills Cognitive Science Linguistics Area requirement.

ANTH 2440| Language and Cinema

MWF 9:00-9:50

Daniel Lefkowitz

ANTH 5541 | Topics in Linguistics: Lakota Language Structures

W 5:00-7:30

Armik Mirzayan

This course introduces students to a descriptive study and exploration of the structures and discourse patterns in the Lakota language and its related dialects and languages within the Indigenous cultural landscape of North America. Specifically, we focus on describing Lakota phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures/relations through examination of patterns in discourse, in both historical and modern narratives. Fulfills the Language Structure requirement for Linguistics majors/minors and graduate students.

ANTH 5549 | Topics in Theoretical Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: Language Socialization

M 4:00-6:30

Lise Dobrin

There is more involved in “learning a language” than acquiring knowledge of its grammatical structures; one also becomes an appropriate and skillful user of language as one is socialized, through communicative encounters with others, into becoming a competent member of a speech community. This course explores the topic of language socialization to reveal how language use at every level—from sound patterns to lexical choices to conversational routines—can contribute to learners’ understandings of what speech is and how it functions. At the same time, socializing encounters shape learners’ understandings of who they are and how they should act or feel, thereby serving as a locus for the transmission of culture. Readings will be drawn from diverse settings and regions of the world. Special attention will be given to language shift and other situations of social change and disjuncture. Course work will involve keeping up with the readings, participating in class discussion, and writing a paper on an individual topic of interest chosen in consultation with the instructor. Linguistics Elective.

ASL 4750 | Contemporary Deaf Studies

MW 3:30-4:45

Christopher Krentz

This advanced seminar examines contemporary topics such as cultural versus pathological views of deaf people; the linguistics of American Sign Language; American deaf education; ASL poetry; Deaf visual art; controversies over reproduction and efforts to cure deafness; politics in the deaf community; deafness and other minority identities; interpreting and intercultural communication; and the international Deaf community. The class is taught in English with an interpreter; no prior knowledge of ASL or the Deaf community is required. Linguistics Elective.

CLAS 3350 | Language and Literature of the Early Celts

MWF 2:00-2:50

Coulter George

This introduction to the Celtic inhabitants of Gaul and the British Isles interweaves two approaches, one linguistic, one literary. First, we will explore how the Celtic languages work, focusing on the basics of Old Irish—which includes such exotic features as initial mutations and conjugated prepositions—but also finishing off with some Middle Welsh. Second, we will compare writings about the Celts found in Ancient Greek and Latin authors with readings of Celtic literature in translation, notably Ireland’s closest equivalent to the Iliad, the Táin Bó Cúailnge, whose Achilles-like hero Cú Chulainn undergoes a monstrous transformation (called the “warp-spasm” by one translator) when he fights: “He sucked one eye so deep into his head that a wild crane couldn’t probe it onto his cheek out of the depths of his skull; the other eye fell out along his cheek.” Fulfills the Structure requirement for Linguistics majors and graduate students.

EDHS 4030 | Speech and Hearing Science

TR 5:00-6:15

Filip Loncke

The course examines principal concepts and procedures for the study of physiologic, perceptual and acoustic aspects of voice, speech and hearing. The course leads the student into the fascinating world of new applications in daily life, in business, and especially in education and clinical work.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to (1) Explain the nature and propagation of sound in terms of its quantifiable parameters, types, and visual representations, (2) Describe the acoustics of vocal registers, vowels, consonants, and supra-segmentals in normal speech production, (3) Explain the psychoacoustics of normal auditory sensitivity and differential sensitivity, (4) Identify the acoustic cues sufficient and necessary for the perception of speech, and (5) Measure and determine acoustic characteristics as expression of gender, culture, and identity. Linguistics Elective.

ENGL 3025 | African American English

TR 11-12:15

Connie Smith

This course examines the communicative practices of African American Vernacular English (AAEV) to explore how a marginalized language dynamic has made major transitions into American mainstream discourse. AAEV is no longer solely the informal speech of many African Americans; it is the way Americans speak. Linguistics Elective.

LING 3090/5090 | TESOL Theory and Method

TR 2:00-3:15

Janay Crabtree

This course provides an introduction to theories of second language acquisition (SLA), as well as methods and materials for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), particularly adult language learners. Students will be required to investigate current issues in the field of TESOL and SLA to then extend and apply the knowledge to language learning observations and/or volunteer tutoring experiences. Demonstration of mastery of teaching methodology will be through development of materials or a learning tool for language learners dictated by student goals and interests. Students will be required to present this tool or course material in class. Recommended pre-/co-requisite: LNGS 3250 & LING 3400. These courses are not required, but they are recommended for students to have requisite background knowledge. Counts three credits toward the TESOL Certificate. Linguistics Elective.

LING 3101/5101 | ESL Teaching Practicum: Language

F 3:00-3:50

Janay Crabtree

Through this 1-credit course, students focus on the topic of language in an L2, while gaining experience in the practice of English-language teaching to international students, faculty, and staff at the University. This experience is an excellent opportunity to gain teaching experience under the supervision of an experienced mentor. For every 1 hour of credit, students must meet with an instructor for 5 classroom & practice 33 hours.

LING 3102/5102 | ESL Teaching Practicum: Culture

F 4:00-4:50

Janay Crabtree

Through this 1-credit course, students focus on the topic of culture in ESL, while gaining experience in the practice of English-language teaching to international students, faculty, and staff at the University. This experience is an excellent opportunity to gain teaching experience under the supervision of an experienced mentor. For every 1 hour of credit, students must meet with an instructor for 5 classroom & practice 33 hours.

LING 3103/5103 | ESL Teaching Practicum: Writing

F 5:00-5:50

Janay Crabtree

Through this 1-credit course, students focus on the topic of writing in an L2, while gaining experience in the practice of English-language teaching to international students, faculty, and staff at the University. This experience is an excellent opportunity to gain teaching experience under the supervision of an experienced mentor. For every 1 hour of credit, students must meet with an instructor for 5 classroom & practice 33 hours.

LING 4650/6650 | Linguistic Typology

R 5:00-7:30

Armik Mirzayan

This is a course on the study of the similarities and variations observed between human languages. We will address such questions as: How do languages vary from each other? What are the limits to crosslinguistic variation? What factors motivate these limits? How do languages of the world group in terms of the grammatical features that they have in common? After an overview of the structural units used to encode meaning in language, we will explore variation in morphology, variation in syntax, and the relationship between variation in the two domains. Finally, we will briefly survey typological approaches to other phenomena, including phonology, lexical semantics, and language death. Fulfills the Theory requirement for Linguistics majors and graduate students.

LING 5409 | Acoustic Phonetics

TR 11:00-12:15

Armik Mirzayan