WLC 301 - African Linguistics and Food

Credits: 3

This course is based on the premise that contemporary African cultures, and ethnic and national identities are shaped by current and past language policies in African countries. This course will explore pre-, inter-, and post-colonial language policies, multilingualism and its diglossic intricacies, including sample of local languages and their phonetic features, pidgin and creole languages, lexification processes and language borrowing/loaning, as well as literacy of mother tongues and colonial languages. The course also emphasizes the relationship between food and language on the African continent. The structure of Africana and African Diaspora cuisines viewed as meta-languages, vocabularies and grammatical structures.

Term(s) Offered: Spring

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