Overview
Description
Using sociolinguistic methodology, explores how men and women use language differently and how these differences are biologically and socially conditioned.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- define key concepts in language and gender studies.
- articulate, in written materials and in class discussion, the different approaches of language and gender researchers and the socio-historical context in which they emerged.
- articulate arguments about the naturalization of gender in our social world by examining and synthesizing primary research articles and summary texts.
- display through class presentations and written materials an informed perspective on the question of how the gender order is enacted and reproduced through linguistic variation.
- show mastery of basic field based methodological concepts and the scientific method through our own fieldwork and research.
- identify, through class discussion and written materials, the reality of and main forces behind beliefs about gendered speech.