Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

Module Identifier
ED32320
Module Title
LANGUAGE AND GENDER
Academic Year
2012/2013
Co-ordinator
Mr Prysor M Davies
Semester
Semester 1
Other Staff
 

Course Delivery

Delivery Type Delivery length / details
Lecture 10 hours
 

Assessment

Assessment Type Assessment length / details Proportion
Semester Assessment Assignment 1  The coursework will consist of an essay totalling 2,500 words (or a project which constitutes a reasonable equivalent)  Course Work:  50%
Semester Exam 3 Hours   Exam  50%
Supplementary Assessment Supplementary assignment  50%
Supplementary Exam 3 Hours   Supplementary exam  All failed or missing elements of assessment to be re-taken or made good.  50%

Learning Outcomes


On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:

  • Demonstrate an ability to place their own experience of gendered language use within a wider research and policy context
  • Show a critical understanding of different approaches to the study of language and gender
  • Be able to articulate and justify their own stance on public debates about language, gender and equal opportunities

Brief description


This module will focus on three distinct phases in the study of language and gender: (1) the early research on gender `differences' in the speech of women and men, carried out in the mid to late 1970s; (2) the Anglo-American research on asymmetries in conversational interactions, developed in the early to mid 1980s; and, (3) recent work (in the late 1980s and 1990s) on discourse and the construction of gendered identities (masculinities and femininities). Illustrative studies, from both institutional and lifeworld settings, will be selected. Particular attention will be given to studies of interaction in educational settings and to studies of different types of media texts (print and broadcast media). In addition, time will be set aside for consideration of current debates about language, gender and equal opportunities.

This module introduces the study of language and gender in social and educational contexts.

Aims


  • To introduce three distinct phases in the study of language and gender
  • To examine gendered discourse practices in different institutional contexts, focusing especially on education and on the media
  • To consider examples of local debates about `sexist? language and to assess the consequences of attempting to create conditions for `inclusive? use of language

Content


The lectures will be based on the following topics:

  • Talking `proper?: unpacking the linguistic stereotypes
  • Women'r language: an early deficit model
  • Sexist wordings of the social world: `man-made? language
  • Women and men in conversation: dominance and a division of labour?
  • Women and men in conversation: two cultures and miscommunication?
  • Girls, boys and language at school
  • Difference, dominance and beyond: discourse and the construction of gendered identities
  • Media discourse, consumerism, masculinity and femininity
  • Reclaiming the language: modes of intervention and outcomes

Reading List

General Text
(1997.) Gender and discourse /edited by Ruth Wodak. Sage Primo search (1995.) Gender articulated :language and the socially constructed self /Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz, editors. Routledge Primo search (2002.) Gender identity and discourse analysis /edited by Lia Litosseliti, Jane Sunderland. John Benjamins Pub. Primo search (2000.) Gendered speech in social context :perspectives from gown and town /edited by Janet Holmes. Victoria University Press Primo search (1994.) Gendering the reader /edited by Sara Mills. Harvester Wheatsheaf Primo search (2001.) Investigating gender :contemporary perspectives in education /edited by Becky Francis and Christine Skelton. Open University Primo search (1998.) Language and gender :a reader /edited by Jennifer Coates. Blackwell Primo search (1995.) Language and gender :interdisciplinary perspectives /edited by Sara Mills. Addison Wesley Longman Primo search (1983.) Language, gender, and society /edited by Barrie Thorne, Cheris Kramarae and Nancy Henley. Heinle & Heinle Primo search (1980 (various p) Learning to lose :sexism and education /edited by Dale Spender and Elizabeth Sarah. Women's Press Primo search (1992.) Men, masculinity and the media /edited by Steve Craig. Sage Pubnslications Primo search (1996.) Rethinking language and gender research :theory and practice /edited by Victoria L. Bergvall, Janet M. Bing, Alice F. Freed. Longman Primo search (1998.) The feminist critique of language :a reader /edited with an introduction by Deborah Cameron. Routledge Primo search Askew, Sue. (1988.) Boys don't cry :boys and sexism in education /Sue Askew and Carol Ross. Open University Press Primo search Cameron, Deborah (1992.) Feminism and Linguistic Theory /Deborah Cameron. Macmillan Primo search Cameron, Deborah (1992.) Feminism and linguistic theory /Deborah Cameron. Macmillan Primo search Cameron, Deborah (2006.) On language and sexual politics /Deborah Cameron. Routledge Primo search Coates, Jennifer. (2004.) Women, men and language :a sociolinguistic account of gender differences in language /Jennifer Coates. Pearson Education Primo search Coates, Jennifer. (2004.) Women, men and language :a sociolinguistic account of gender differences in language /Jennifer Coates. Longman Primo search Crawford, Mary (1995.) Talking difference :on gender and language /Mary Crawford. SAGE Primo search Eckert, Penelope. (2003.) Language and gender /[by] Penelope Eckert [and] Sally McConnell-Ginet. Cambridge University Press Primo search Gauntlett, David. (2002 (various p) Media, gender and identity :an introduction /David Gauntlett. Routledge Primo search Gibbon, Margaret. (1999.) Feminist perspectives on language /Margaret Gibbon. Addison Wesley Longman Primo search Graddol, David. (1989.) Gender voices /David Graddol and Joan Swann. Basil Blackwell Primo search Holmes, Janet (2003.) The handbook of language and gender / edited by Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff. Blackwell Publishing Primo search Litosseliti, Lia. (2006.) Gender and language :theory and practice /Lia Litosseliti. Hodder Arnold Primo search Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin. (1994.) The making of men :masculinities, sexualities and schooling /Mairtin Mac an Ghaill. Open University Press Primo search Mills, Sara (2003.) Gender and politeness /Sara Mills. Cambridge University Press Primo search Pauwels, Anne. (1998.) Women changing language /Anne Pauwels. Longman Primo search Scraton, Sheila (1992.) Shaping up to womanhood :gender and girls' physical education /Sheila Scraton. Open University Press Primo search Skelton, Christine. (2001.) Schooling the boys :masculinities and primary education /Christine Skelton. Open University Press Primo search Stanworth, Michelle. (1983.) Gender and schooling :a study of sexual divisions in the classroom /Michelle Stanworth. Hutchinson Education Primo search Sunderland, Jane (2006.) Language and gender :an advanced sourcebook /Jane Sutherland. Routledge Primo search Sunderland, Jane. (2004.) Gendered discourses /Jane Sunderland. Palgrave Macmillan Primo search Tannen, Deborah. (1994.) Gender and discourse /Deborah Tannen. Oxford University Press Primo search Thorne, Barrie (1993.) Gender play :girls and boys in school /Barrie Thorne. Open University Press Primo search Should Be Purchased
Talbot, Mary (1998.) Language and gender :an introduction /Mary M. Talbot. Check in Galloways for copies. Blackwell Publishers Primo search

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6