| Lectures
1 |
Introduction and Overview |
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Gender and its socio-cultural
context.
The trouble with dichotomies - Sex vs. gender, gender
role vs. gender identity, etc.
The place of gender in society and culture.
Main
readings: Prescribed Text – chapter 1;
Jespersen (1922) [available at DITTO]
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| Lectures 2 |
Language and gender:
Traditional sociolinguistic approaches |
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Variationist approach
Social networks.
Main readings: Prescribed Text –
chapters 2, 3, 6 & 30; Holmes (1986) [DITTO]
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| Lecture 3 |
Language and gender:
Approaches from ethnography. |
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Main readings: Prescribed Text-chapter 7; Hill ((1987)
[DITTO]; Keenan (1974) [tutor’s pack]
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| Lecture 4 |
Gender Differences
and Conversation |
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Politeness, Turn-taking, Topic
selection, Interruptions and Silence, Power and Solidarity,
etc.
Main readings: Prescribed Text – chapters 7, 8,9,
12 & 16 ; Coates (1997)pg. 107-129 [tutor’ pack]
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| Lectures 5 |
Explanations presented
for the differences in conversational practice |
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a) Dual Culture Models and
Critiques
Main readings: Prescribed Text – chapter 27;
Tannen, Deborah. 1990. You Just Don't Understand: Men
and Women in Conversation
(NY: William Morrow and Co, nc.)
b) Power and Resistance
Main readings: Prescribed Text –
chapters 24, 26 & 31
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| Lecture 6 |
Gender and Social
Variation and Change in Language |
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Main readings: Prescribed Text – chapters 5 &
10
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| Lecture 7 |
7. Acquisition of
gender-differentiated language across cultures |
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Main Readings:
taken from Phillips et al [available in tutor’s
pack]: chapters 6, 7, 8 or 9
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| Lecture 8 |
8. Sexism in Language |
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Documenting sexism in language:naming
practices, titles, marked/unmarked forms, "generic
he, etc.
Main readings: Cameron (1990) [DITTO]; Schultz (1975)
[tutor’s pack
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| Lecture 8 |
Linguistic Gender |
| Lecture 9 |
Main readings:
Wolfe (1980) [tutor’s pack]; Baron (1986)
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