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The course will be co-taught by Stephan Breidbach (HU) and Barbara Schmenk (University of Waterloo, Canada).
The study of gender and language has seen major shifts in the past few decades. In particular, ‘difference approaches’, which were characterized by their implicit assumptions about gender as a noun that denotes a binary distinction between women and men, have been challenged by social constructionist and poststructuralist views of gender and of language alike, giving way to more complex views of gender – and gendered – identities as constructed in and through language. ‘Gender’ has become a term in many recent discourses on language in social and cultural contexts, which has lead to more complex, localized, and less static views of language, identity, and sociocultural constructs of gender.
This seminar provides a brief introduction to the study of language, gender and discourse from its beginnings in 20th-century Western linguistics. Course readings include important and influential original texts and excerpts as well as examples of current critical deconstructions of traditional perspectives and research on gender and language. We will examine the potential impact of this scholarship on our views and practices of mediating, enacting and constructing gender.
Besides, our focus will be on the (de-)construction of gender in the language classroom. We will investigate possible links between language and gender in the classroom, how teaching materials and tasks may (de-)construct gender issues, and how gender topics can be addressed in the EFL classroom.
Students are required to
- attend regularly and participate actively in class
- provide the minutes of one weekly session of the seminar
- give short presentation(s) on selected papers & co-moderate one session, including the preparation of in-class activities and discussion task(s) and a post-evaluation of the session
- conduct mini-research-projects (e.g. analysis of teaching materials, development of teaching materials)
Students will be required to attend the course on a regular basis
Key readings:
• Talbot, Mary; Atkinson, Karen & Atkinson, David (2003). Language and Power in the Modern World. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Butler, Judith (2007). Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York/London: Routledge Classics.
• Cameron, Deborah (2010). Sex/gender, language and the new biologism. Applied Linguistics 31.2: 173-92.
• Cameron, Deborah (2005). Language, gender and sexuality: current issues and new directions. Applied Linguistics 26.4: 482-502.
• Sunderland, Jane (2006). Language and Gender. An Advanced Resource Book. London/New York: Routledge.
• Decke-Cornill, Helene (2007): Gender Studies and Foreign Language Teaching. Tübingen: Narr.
Further selected readings to be announced at the beginning of the course. |
