3. semestar

Linguistic anthropology deals with complex relationships between language, culture, society and cognition. The first part of the course focuses on several topics from anthropological linguistics, which may be viewed as a subdiscipline of linguistic anthropology, and includes the discussion of the main topics from the field of evolutionary linguistics and cognitive anthropology. The second part of the course is devoted to the treatment of language as a culturally constructed communicative and symbolic practice with the special focus on language socialization, ritual language and verbal art, the role of power and (language) ideologies, and literacy from anthropological perspective.