# Ethnography of Speaking

- Institution: IIT Guwahati
- Department: Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher: Prof. Bidisha Som
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [NPTEL](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109103877)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA](https://nptel.ac.in/faq) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109103877)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

## Lectures

1. [Lec 1: Introduction to the course; language as seen from sociological and linguistic perspective; Historical account of the social-origin theory of language.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/d6ec313cc777) (Video)
2. [Lec 2:Role of society on language use and speakers: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/e43280451a91) (Video)
3. [Lec 3:Condillac, Vico and Herder](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/99bf5691ce04) (Video)
4. [Lec 4:Other modern scholars of the social-origin theory of language](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/f03f825e15b5) (Video)
5. [Lec 5:Some other domains: sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, ethnolinguistics, and pragmatics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/b7cb8f30e1ee) (Video)
6. [Lecture 1: What is language? How do languages and dialects get their labels?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/1c94b1599951) (Video)
7. [Lecture 2: Regional and social variation: case studies from various Indian languages.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/f45630df5281) (Video)
8. [Lecture 3: Gender and age: key variables in language use and structure; role of underlying cultural construal.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/e9e7337712f3) (Video)
9. [Lecture 4: Ethnicity and social network](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/c27bc69acd8c) (Video)
10. [Lecture 5: Language change.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/721a002fd307) (Video)
11. [Lecture 1: Style and register](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/c62463507107) (Video)
12. [Lecture 2: Politeness strategies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/09a9352a6562) (Video)
13. [Lecture 3: Cross cultural communication; ethnographic accounts from different cultures](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/47d692800d1e) (Video)
14. [Lecture 4: Performance of language: narratives and genres](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/e2da7a293e33) (Video)
15. [Lecture 5: Language and perception; social class and language, elaborate code vs restricted code](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/3f59d4d1d20d) (Video)
16. [Lecture 1: Language and Identities](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/595da2a41e2b) (Video)
17. [Lecture 2: Language attitude in multilingual communities](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/29ba7570a78b) (Video)
18. [Lecture 3: Language ideology](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/177ce1275fa2) (Video)
19. [Lecture 4: Language socialization](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/897758128d91) (Video)
20. [Lecture 5: Case studies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/2bd8da6bea52) (Video)
21. [Lec-1: Different types of contact: social, political, economic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/e4d873512054) (Video)
22. [Lec-2: Pidgins and creoles, post creole continuum](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/29536e33bb90) (Video)
23. [Lec-3: Mixed languages: reasons, grammar and cultural significance.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/cac3a324a727) (Video)
24. [Lec-4: Bi/multilingualism: reasons and types; social VS individual bilingualism, impact of bilingualism, Code switchig vs Code mixing.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/3fc6465c1254) (Video)
25. [Lec-5: Linguistic Area (Sprachbunds), India as a linguistic area](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/fea91ef23161) (Video)
26. [Lecture 1: Diglossia](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/5bf843a01a90) (Video)
27. [Lecture 2: Language maintenance, shift: different forces of assimilation leading to shift in language loyalty.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/118e363775c2) (Video)
28. [Lecture 3: Death and revitalization: repercussions of language death, language and cultural cognition; case studies of language revitalization and their impact.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/ed8d4d83c49a) (Video)
29. [Lecture 4: Discourse analysis; conversation analysis](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/ac16d9286541) (Video)
30. [Lecture 5: Critical discourse analysis](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/882d1a223654) (Video)
31. [Lecture 01: Language policy and planning​](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/47bf76e19d7d) (Video)
32. [Lecture 02: : Language in Mass communication](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/5c559e1d55e0) (Video)
33. [Lecture 03: Language and Law](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/9fc380d2b740) (Video)
34. [Lecture 04: Discourse strategy used in Daily Communication](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/b4e103d4aba2) (Video)
35. [Lecture 05: Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/796c4337fe02) (Video)
36. [Lecture 01: What is collective cognition? How is language related to collective cognition? Case studies and examples from different cultures.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/d2cb6b52b068) (Video)
37. [Lecture 02: Supracultural models](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/f1f512ef231f) (Video)
38. [Lecture 03: Social cognition in discourse](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/f94a21b83e18) (Video)
39. [Lecture 04: Cognitive sociolinguistics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/a1905025c266) (Video)
40. [Lecture 05: Social neuroscience and language: new findings on the neural signatures of language and social practices.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109103877/9c34f2b82d0b) (Video)