Course organization. Linguistic anthropology as a field of inquiry
Language and morality
Communication functions
Language, culture, and ethnicity
Fashion of speaking? How language shapes our world-view
Language as system, use, and ideology
Speech communities. Boundaries between languages and language contact
Gender and markedness
Children and language socialization
Communication in classroom
Standard and variation. Language and social stratification
Discourse
How to use language in school settings: final discussion