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Course description

Migration and mobility are an increasingly visible feature of social life across the globe, leading many to describe social life as superdiverse. This observation, and the recognition that we are not exact replicas of our families, friends, and significant others, means that all social life involves contact with others who do not share the same rules as us for social interaction. In turn, this raises the question of how we cope with this constant unfamiliarity with others' social practice. In this course, we will examine the ways that discourse works to manage this unfamiliarity. Using and analysing their own data, students will see that spoken and written commentaries about sameness and difference in social practice manage this unfamiliarity, while creating, modifying, and disassembling local laws for social practice.

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