Topic: Language and Anthropology: Class, Dialect, and National Identity in the UK and Around the World
Abstract: Overview of the class; the difficulty of studying one’s own culture and what to do about it; language and ethnography; the European background; ethnicity, class, and food names; how English became the dominant language of England and then of the United Kingdom and of the British Empire; regional and class dialects; “Received Pronunciation” and its impact; radio and television; the marginalization of the Celtic languages and their current revival; globalization and contemporary English; the emergence of postcolonial versions of English; class, syntax, and the shifting grounds of vernacular usage.
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