ENVI 225 - 100 Words for Snow: Language and Nature

Cross-Listed as LING 225.

This course examines the relationship between language and nature. What is language and what is nature? What does the language of environment discourse look like? How do the ways we talk about nature influence our perceptions of it? How has the environment influenced individual languages? What are current ideas on how language evolved in our species? Can we look at languages as if they were organisms and analyze their ecosystems? Are biodiversity and linguistic diversity linked? Can saving endangered languages help us save endangered environments? Next offered spring 2013. (4 Credits)