This course encourages you to think about and beyond the definitions of ‘language’, ‘society’ and ‘power.’ It introduces you to complex approaches to power and links between language and powerful and powerless societies/groups and individuals. We will consider different extra-linguistic factors such as race/ethnicity, gender, class in relation to media, political, institutional discourses, etc. There will be opportunities for group work analyses of power manifested and contested through language as the course aims to familiarize students with analytical tools to articulate, analyse, and interpret various linguistic strategies that reflect, maintain, and (re)produce power relationships.