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Dec 26, 2024
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Goucher College 2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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PHL 280 - Archaeology of Language (3 Cr.)
A discussion of language in its various roles, from creating meaning to hiding it. By looking at five ways of treating language-the literal, the metaphorical, the evocative, the structural, the deconstruction-this course explores why language works and why it sometimes does not work, why it is possible to be understood and to be misunderstood. Topics include the relationship of language and culture, language and gender, language and cognition, and language and madness. Readings in Aristotle, Heidegger, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, and Eco. Prerequisite: either sophomore standing, a 100-level philosophy course, or permission of the instructor. Spring semester. Offered 2015-16 and alternate years. Rose.
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