Anthropology of Communication Course
Explore how human beings use language, gesture, ritual, and digital media to create meaning across cultures. This course gives you the analytical tools to examine communication as a social and cultural force — not just an exchange of information. From semiotics to critical discourse analysis, you will develop a rigorous, evidence-based understanding of how communication shapes society.
from 4 to 360h flexible workload
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What will I learn?
In this course, you will study communication as a cultural phenomenon grounded in anthropological theory and ethnographic method. You will learn how language, nonverbal behaviour, and discourse reflect and reinforce social structures, identities, and power relations. The curriculum covers sociolinguistics, multilingualism, ritual performance, and digital communication, giving you a comprehensive analytical toolkit. You will apply frameworks from scholars such as Dell Hymes, Norman Fairclough, and Erving Goffman to real communicative data. By the end, you will be equipped to analyse communication in professional, intercultural, health, and organisational contexts with precision and critical depth.
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Develop skills
- Critical Discourse Analysis: Decode how language reproduces power and ideology in texts.
- Cross-Cultural Communication: Identify and navigate communicative norms across diverse cultural contexts.
- Ethnographic Fieldwork: Design and conduct ethical speech research using observation and recording methods.
- Sociolinguistic Identity Analysis: Analyse how language variation constructs race, gender, and social identity.
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