Linguistics
The Linguistics Program exposes students to the study of the structure and use of language, and urges students to find the ways in which structure and use are interrelated. Students can explore language structure and use with faculty in the program through experimental and ethnographic methods.
About the Minor
Language is often taken for granted in daily usage, but the minute one begins to consider how to acquire and use language, its complex properties become evident. Students of linguistics at Hamilton examine how we acquire and use language, with all its complex properties, as they investigate the characteristics of language and the mind, and language and society. Many find opportunities to spend a summer conducting research with a faculty member.
A Sampling of Courses
Communication and Culture
In this course, we will examine the role that communicative processes play in shaping common conceptions of the world and in facilitating forms of social organization through which people experience everyday life. This course offers an introduction to the foundational relationship between language and culture by examining anthropological approaches to the study of language. In this course, you will learn how language both reflects and creates thought, culture, and power relations. You will also learn how to apply the concepts we study to your own everyday experiences with language.
Explore these select courses:
Meet Our Faculty
syntax, semantics, language acquisition, pragmatic and Japanese linguistics
Chaise LaDousa
Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Anthropology; Director of Education Studies
language and culture, particularly the ways in which institutions serve as loci for cultural production
Contact
Department Name
Linguistics Program
Contact Name
Masaaki Kamiya, Chair
Clinton, NY 13323
