Language and Gender - Einzelansicht

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This course will deal with the principles underlying language use, with a specific focus on differences and the construction of gender and sexual orientation. We will learn that gender is seen as a dichotomy in some research such as sociolinguistics and that other research claims that gender interactional patterns are not a reflection of the individual’s nature but rather of some performance that the individual is accomplishing. According to this view, "gender is doing, not being." But also there is more to know about the different research methodologies of language, sex and gender categories. These include Sociolinguistics, Conversation analysis, Corpus linguistics, Discursive Psychology, Feminist Post-Structuralist Discourse Analysis and Queer Theory.

Students will be required to read one or two papers each week and write response papers. Also the students will have to prepare one debate on a selected topic.