10-409-H-5351

Language and Gender Across Text Types
Thursdays 10:15 - 11:45 GW2 B1700

John Bateman

Office hour: Thursdays 12-13

Set ‘book’ for the course

Robin Lakoff (1973-6) “Language and Woman’s Place”

Available in (at least) three forms:

1. 1973: Language in Society 2(1):45-80
2. 1976: published book (Harper & Row)
3. 2004: published book with additional texts and commentaries
   (edited by Mary Bucholtz, Oxford University Press)

Also various parts can be found on the web.

Sessions

1

20.4.2006

Issues, Orientation and Goals

2

27.4.2006

Quantitative approaches

Reading: J. Coates: Women, men and language, Chapter 4. “Quantitative Studies”

3

4.5.2006

Qualitative approaches

Reading: L. Ravelli: “Functional analysis of texts”. In: Unsworth, L. (2000) Researching Language in Schools and Communities. Cassell.

4

11.5.2006

Robin Lakoff: “Language and Woman’s Place”

5

18.5.2006

Deficit, Difference, Dominance, Performativity:
the basic theoretical positions

6

1.6.2006

Gender in Texts: Presentations

7

8.6.2006

8

15.6.2006

9

22.6.2006

Evaluation and Evidence for gendered discursive strategies

10

29.6.2006

Gender in Texts: Presentations

11

6.7.2006

12

13.7.2006

13

20.7.2006

Conclusions, Outlook, State of the art

Reading: Joan Swann. “Yes, but is it gender?” In: Litosseliti & Sunderland (eds.) Gender identity and discourse analysis. (2002)