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L 25A: LANGUAGE, GENDER & SEX
Semester 1: 2006-2007.

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Prescribed Text:

Coates, Jennifer. 2004. Women, Men & Language. (3rd ed.) UK: Pearson Longman:
Coates, Jennifer (ed). 1998. Language & Gender: a Reader. UK & USA: Blackwell
Highly Recommended:

Baron, Dennis. 1986. Grammar & Gender USA: Yale U. P.

Coates, Jennifer. 1996.
Women Talk. UK & USA: Blackwell
Devonish, Hubert. 1988. Grammatical &lexical gender in Caribbean Creole languages.’
Paper presented to Seminar on Gender Issues in the Humaities. Women &
Development Studies, UWI: St. Augustine, Trinidad.
Escure, Genvieve.  
Johnson, Sally & Ulrike Meinhof. 1997. . Language & Masculinity. UK & USA:
Blackwell
Murray, 1985 ‘Toward a model of members’ methods for recognizing interruptions.
Language in Society 14: 31-40 Cambridge UP

Reisman, Karl. 1974. Contrapuntal conversation in an Antiguan village’ In Bauman &
Sherzer (eds.) Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. UK & USA:
Cambridge.
Shields Brodber, Kathryn. 1992 (b) Dynamism & assertiveness in the public voice:
code-switching and turntaking in radio talk shows in Jamaica.’ Pragmatics 2:4 487-504


--------- 1998.
“Hens can crow too: the female voice of authority on air in Jamaica” In
Christie et al (eds) Studies in Caribbean Language 11. The Multimedia Production
Centre, UWI St. Augustine:187-203

-------- 2001

“Contrapuntal Conversations & the Performance Floor”. In Christie, P. (ed.)
Respect Due: Papers on English & English-related Creoles in Honour of Professor
Robert LePage. UWI Press: 208-218

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“Crowing Hens are not Aberrant: Gender, Culture & Performance Conversation
in Jamaica” in Mohammed, P (ed.) Gendered Realities The Press, U.W.I.& Centre for
Gender & Development Studies, Mona: 495-511

 
 
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