Mar 28, 2024  
Graduate Record 2016-2017 
    
Graduate Record 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

ANTH 7440 - Language and Emotion


This course explores emotion from the perspectives of cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. Topics include: emotion in the natural vs. social sciences; cross-cultural conceptions of emotion; historical change in emotion discourses; emotion as a theory of the self; the grammatical encoding of emotion in language; (mis-) communication of emotion; and emotion in the construction of racialized and gendered identities.



Credits: 3