What semiotic processes are used to construct racial, gendered, ethnic or other forms of difference in a particular setting or media example?

Identify, research, and critically analyze a dominant discourse as it relates to language, gender, race, class, etc.
Sample essay topics
-How do ideas about language (language ideologies) inform dominant discourses of social mobility in education or the workplace?

-What semiotic processes are used to construct racial, gendered, ethnic or other forms of difference in a particular setting or media example? With what consequences?

Analyze the transformation of power relations and structures through linguistic practices
Sample essay topics
-How are a group of speakers working to reclaim or revitalize a language? With what practices and frameworks?

-How is a particular social movement creating social change through linguistic change? What novel ways of speaking or communicating do they propose?

-How is the viability of a political and economic structure debated? (example: discourses and counter-discourses on capitalism)

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