LIGN 176Language of Politics and Advertising
How can we explain the difference between what is literally said versus what is actually conveyed in the language of law, politics, and advertising? How people’s ordinary command of language and their reasoning skills are used to manipulate them.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “none.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (3)
- Linguistics (B.A.)
- Linguistics (Cognition and Language) (B.A.)
- Linguistics (Language and Society) (B.A.)