What is language and where does it come from? Can language shape our ways of thinking? How do systems of power intersect with language and communication? What are the effects of globalization on language?

No one’s first language is academic reading or writing, please ask questions if you need further explanation. If you would like, you can utilize the writing center tutors.

Please include your name in your response and follow MLA, APA, or Chicago format for title.

In this course, I would like you to explore your own lived experiences and connect the concepts in the text to your own existence. Depending of the context of the chapter you will be able to connect course material to your self, family, neighborhood, community, even nation. Anthropologists have called ethnographic research the “discovery methodology,” you will be looking at your own experience through the lens of anthropology.

Often we overlook our own experience, thinking it as nothing special. With further questions and inspections you will find deeper meaning and connections to the concepts and terms in this course. I look forward to reading your responses

STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES
What is language and where does it come from?
Can language shape our ways of thinking?
How do systems of power intersect with language and communication?
What are the effects of globalization on language?
INSTRUCTIONS
If you feel confident in your academic writing ability, you have creative freedom to write freely as long as you follow the writing response rubric. If you would prefer more structure, please select one of the following learning objective questions from chapter 4, from our main text, Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age.

What is language and where does it come from?
Can language shape our ways of thinking?
How do systems of power intersect with language and communication?
What are the effects of globalization on language?

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