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 Linguistics 132 Syllabus | Requirements | Lectures | Assignments | Resources | ERes 

SYLLABUS

Note: Section discussions and quizzes cover readings, lectures, and other course material from the preceding week. Unless otherwise stated, all assignments are due at the beginning of section on the week indicated.

Week 1: March 30-April 3
Is Language Sexist?
  • Editor's introduction (LWP 3-14)
  • Lakoff (LWP 51-75, plus annotations in the footnotes)

Quiz 0 (not graded)

Week 2: April 6-10
Imagining "Women's Language"
  • Lakoff (LWP 39-50, 77-102, plus annotations in the footnotes)

Quiz 1
FO 1 due

Week 3: April 13-17
The "Verbal Woman": Essentializing Conversation and Cooperation
  • ERes: Cameron, " Unanswered Questions and Unquestioned Assumptions in the Study of Language and Gender: Female Verbal Superiority "
  • Tannen (LWP 158-164)

Quiz 2
FO 2 due

Week 4: April 20-24
Interactional Inequality and the Radical Critique of Gender Difference
  • ERes: Ochs and Taylor, "The 'Father Knows Best' Dynamic in Dinnertime Narratives"
  • Ehrlich (LWP 223-228)

Quiz 3
FO 3 due

Week 5: April 27-May 1
Gender, Sexuality, and Linguistic Capital
  • ERes: Hall, "Lip Service on the Fantasy Lines"
  • Davies (LWP 187-194)

Quiz 4
FO 4 due

Data analysis 1 due at the beginning of lecture Friday, May 1

Week 6: May 4-8
Language and Women's Places: The Multicultural Feminist Challenge
  • ERes: Scott, "Crossing Cultural Borders: 'Girl' and 'Look' as Markers of Identity in Black Women's Language Use"
  • Mendoza-Denton (LWP 260-268)

Quiz 5
FO 5 due

Week 7: May 11-15
The Invisible Man: Language and Masculinities
  • ERes: Kiesling, "Power and the Language of Men"

Quiz 6
FO 6 due

Week 8: May 18-22
The Linguistic Production of Sexual Selves and Others
  • ERes: Land and Kitzinger, "Speaking as a Lesbian: Correcting the Heterosexist Presumption"
  • Queen (LWP 289-295)

Quiz 7
FO 7 due

Week 9: May 25-29
Gender Bending and Blending through Language

NO CLASS MONDAY
NO SECTION MEETINGS THIS WEEK--work on your data analyses!

  • ERes: Barrett, "Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens"
  • Hall (LWP 171-178)
Week 10: June 1-5
Resistant Gender and Sexual Styles
  • ERes: Bucholtz, "Geek the Girl: Language, Femininity, and Female Nerds"

Quiz 8 (includes material from Week 8 and Week 9)
FO 8 due

Data analysis 2 at the beginning of lecture Friday, June 5
All extra credit due at the beginning of lecture Friday, June 5

Final exam guidelines and study guide will be distributed in lecture Monday, June 1
Final exam Wednesday, June 10, 4-7 p.m. in Chemistry 1171

 

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