609260 SE Linguistics and Culture II: Gender and language

summer semester 2023 | Last update: 31.01.2023 Place course on memo list
609260
SE Linguistics and Culture II: Gender and language
SE 2
5
weekly
each semester
English

Students will be familiar with different approaches to gender linguistics and will be able to apply them to historical and contemporary linguistic data.

The publication of Robin Lakoff’s seminal book Language and Woman’s Place in 1975 sparked scholarly interest in women’s language. Since then, the influence of gender on language use has been widely researched. Over the years, different approaches to the study of language and gender have been adopted, ranging from the now out-dated deficit approach to the dynamic approach, which considers gender identity as a social construct rather than a person’s inherent characteristic. 

In this class, participants will explore the impact of gender on language variation and change on different linguistic levels (e.g. morphology, lexis and pragmatics) in both present-day and historical English varieties.

Reading tasks, short presentations, (group) discussions of linguistic articles and sample texts, corpus linguistic analyses, presentation of research progress

Students are required to attend regularly; presence at the first session, in particular, is mandatory. Other requirements for positive assessment are: adequate language proficiency, active participation in discussions (or equivalent homework), regular reporting on research progress, a 30-min presentation ( with handout, and a written research paper (stylesheet for linguistics available on Institute’s website).

 

Bucholtz, Mary. ed. 2004. Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries. Rev. and expand. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

MA Teacher Training Programme: none

MA 2009: none

Teacher Training Programme "old" (2001): Positive completion of first part of studies (1. Studienabschnitt).

07.03.2023
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Date Time Location
Tue 2023-03-07
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-03-14
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-03-21
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-03-28
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-04-18
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-04-25
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-05-02
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-05-09
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-05-16
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-05-23
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-05-30
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-06-06
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-06-13
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-06-20
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free
Tue 2023-06-27
15.30 - 17.00 40136 40136 Barrier-free