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Examines language by approaching it through its social users — ethnic groups, genders, and social classes — and its contextualized usages — the languages of publishing, advertising, law, technical communications, academe and the electronic media. The course explores the functions of these languages and the roles of such forces as dictionaries, social change, and new communications technologies in the evolution of these languages. [24L]