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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Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

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.