Postgraduate Course: Language and Society in the Middle East (IMES11005)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The aim of this course is to examine the relationship between language and society and between language and power. Using examples from the Middle East, the course analyses language as an instrument of control, persuasion, and coercive power, as well as a form of social and political action. The course also explores how states represent themselves through discourses that serve to transform existing realities, for example through naming and unnaming people, streets, and monuments. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Course booklet - £4 |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
| In addition to becoming familiar with the growing body of material on language usage and its social and political contexts, student presentations will encourage development of organisational, analytical and presentational skills.
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | |
Course secretary | Mrs Rhona Hajcman
Tel: (0131 6)51 3846
Email: Rhona.Hajcman@ed.ac.uk |
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