What is LING111 all about?
This course introduces the role of language in globalization by examining communication issues concerning language use across cultural political and geographic boundaries, pointing out how language and other cultural forms flow in global networks, across cultural fault-lines, constructing trans-cultural and trans-national identities. Among the topics it discusses are issues of identity, spread of English and its acculturation to local contexts of use, creativity in language mixing, language in global pop cultures, language in cyberspace, as well as minority language experiences, and loss of indigenous languages.