https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/UGST4130?type=COREThis course explores the relationshipbetween language, politics, and society, with a focus on how meaning isconstructed, communicated, and contested in public discourse. Beginning with aconcise introduction to core concepts in linguistics, students develop thetools needed to analyze how language functions at the levels of sound,structure, meaning, and variation.The course then turns to framing theory, to examine how language shapes perception and influences politicalunderstanding. These concepts are applied through a critical analysis of mediaand political communication, including a screening of Wag the Dog.In the second half of the course,students investigate language policy, multilingualism, and identity,considering how languages are regulated, institutionalized, and tied to socialbelonging. A visit to the Esperanto Museum provides a concrete case forexamining planned languages and the ideological dimensions of linguisticprojects.The course concludes by connectinglanguage to power, ideology, and political communities, engaging withkey theories, and applying these frameworks to historical and contemporary casestudies. Through discussion, reflection, and final presentations, studentssynthesize their understanding of how language operates as a central tool inpolitical life.