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LNGS7507: Language and Ethnic Diversity
2023 unit information
Most of the roughly 7, 000 languages still existing today are used by ethnic minority groups, in communities of fewer than 100, 000 people. Yet such communities are often bypassed by dominant discourses of ethno-cultural diversity, at the same time as threats to the sustainability of their languages and lifeways have reached historically extreme levels. What do societies stand to gain through the inclusion of ethnic minority cultures and languages, and what is lost when they cease to be? How can linguistic knowledge be applied to support the vitality of ethno-linguistic minority communities, and by whom?
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Linguistics |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. analyse and appreciate the role of linguistic diversity both from a human and from a scientific point of view
- LO2. articulate informed opinions and take part in debates about respect to cultural minorities and their ideological and political status
- LO3. be able to state principles to interact and communicate adequately and respectfully in varied cultural contexts and with minority language communities in particular
- LO4. make informed suggestions and decisions about concrete situations of language endangerment
- LO5. critically use text and other resources (from academia or the media) to develop and sustain ideas
- LO6. be able to develop a research project within the discipline
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