TThis course offers an introduction to the study
of the relationship between language, literacy, society and the individual. In
this course, language is perceived as a social practice, focusing on different
aspects of its role in social life. Furthermore, this course encourages its
students to think and recast language as a range of material practices that are
within and yet distinct from both linguistics and literature, thus identifying
ways in which different literacies produce the spaces, bodies and species
necessary for developing further thought in the humanities adequate to the
challenges of the contemporary world. Therefore, this course will engage with
literature, the arts and theory in relation to language and literacy, in the
key of issues that are relevant, urgent and timely for the different problematics
embedded in the 21 st century. Topics reviewed include social,
cultural and political theory, cultural materialism, media, environmental
humanities, gender theory and posthuman studies.
This subject will be taught face-to-face as far as
is possible within the instructions of the health authorities. At the start
of the academic year, the calendar containing all teaching activities (with
timetables and classrooms) will be available in the subject's Moodle area. |