Apr 02, 2025  
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

AAS 370 - Intercultural Communication


Through combination of theory and research from discourse linguistics and linguistic anthropology, this course examines (i) how culture shapes ways of speaking; (ii) how language constructs identities, dispositions, role relations; and (iii) what challenges people from different cultures may face when they communicate with each other. The following analytical perspectives will be presented: speech act theory, ethnography of communication, linguistic politeness, and sequential organization of turn taking.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): one previous course in D.E.C. J or SBS or one previous course in Linguistics

Offered: This course is offered as both AAS 370 and LIN 370 .

DEC: J

SBC: SBS+