Current Events & Lectures:
In the News:
news archives
•
Need to Learn a language that isn't taught at Emory?
Visit the SILS website for more information.
|
|
|
Emory's Program in Linguistics represents the contemporary field of linguistics as it is situated at the
intersection of the human-ities, social sciences, and sciences. Our central mission is to promote wider
understanding of the centrality of language to the human condition, to foster an intellectual climate
for cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on language, and to introduce students to the scientific
and critical study of human language and communication.
Our primary areas of research and teaching include:
- description and analysis of linguistic structure and use
- relations between language and the mind/brain
- first and second language acquisition/literacy
- relations between language, society and culture
- causes and consequences of language change, contact and variation
- role of linguistic evidence and communicative practices in scientific and humanistic research
In these overlapping areas of research and in our curriculum, we explore language as a physiological, psychological,
social, cultural and political phenomenon. Given the multifaceted nature of language and the questions pertaining to it,
we incorporate a diversity of modes of inquiry in our research and teaching. At the undergraduate level, we prepare students
for graduate or professional study in a variety of fields, and, more generally, to meet the challenges of our multicultural
society and ever more globalized world.
|
|
|