LING 025. Sociolinguistics: Language, Culture, and Society (LCS)

(Cross-listed as SOAN 040B)
How do language, culture and society fit together? How is language shaped by the world we live in and does it shape it? This course introduces students to language as a social practice with an emphasis on how spoken languages are used in everyday interactions.

Come learn about: Language and power, Language, social structures and inequality, Language and the nation-state, Multilingualism and code-switching, Language as a social practice, Language variation, Quantitative and qualitative approaches to language in society.
Social Sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for BLST, ESCH.
Spring 2026. Conrod.
Fall 2026. Fuller Medina.
Spring 2027. Fuller Medina.
Catalog chapter: Linguistics
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/linguistics

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