| Centro |
| Facultad de Filología, Traducción y Comunicación |
| Departamento |
| Filología Inglesa y Alemana |
| Profesor responsable |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| Short lectures, class discussion and individual/group work. |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Examen Final y trabajo |
| Bibliografia |
| Adler, Max H. (1978) Sex Differences in Human Speech. A Sociolinguistic Study. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag. Cameron, Deborah (ed.) (1990) The Feminist Critique of Language. London: Routledge. Coates, Jennifer (1986) Women, Men and Language. London: Longman Scientific and Technical. Coates, Jennifer & Deborah Cameron (eds.) (1988) Women in their Speech Communities: New Perspectives on Language and Sex. New York: Longman. Eckert, Penelope & Sally McConnell-Ginet (2003) Language and Gender. Cambridge: C.U.P. Flotow, Luise von (1997) Translation and Gender. Translating in the æEra of Feminism.Æ Manchester/Ottawa: St. Jerome Publishing/University of Ottawa Press. Graddol, David & Joan Swann (1989) Gender Voices. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. |
| Continguts |
| Descripción del curso/Contents for the course: 1.- GENDER AND LANGUAGE STUDIES. 1.1. Introduction to gender studies. 1.2. Men and women in history 1.3. Sex and gender: the nature/culture debate. 1.4. Sex, gender and identity. 2.- LANGUAGE, GENDER AND DISCOURSE. 2.1. Language and discourse. 2.2. Language, discourse and gender. 2.3. Study of general sex differences in language: 2.3.1. æFolklinguisticsÆ 2.3.2. Dialectology 2.3.3. Sociolinguistics 2.3.4. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis 3.- GENDER AND CONVERSATION IN ENGLISH. 3.1. Gender and conversation: An introduction. Some traditional theories on gender styles in conversation. 3.2. Women and men speaking: Sociolinguistics. 3.2. Women and men speaking. The pragmatics of gendered conversation. 3.2.1. How we talk. 3.2.2. Politeness. 3.2.3. Power/powerlessness. 3.2.4. Interruptions. 3.2.5. Speaking vs. silence 4.- GENDER BIAS IN LANGUAGE: SEXISM. 4.1. The æproprietyÆ of language: æNamingÆ. 4.2. Sexism in English. 4.3. Changing gender bias in language. 4.4. Some guidelines for non-sexist language usage. 5.- SEXUAL DISCOURSE AND POWER. 5.1. Gender, language and power. 5.2. The discourse of sex and power. 6.- TEXT AND GENDER: GENDER IN VARIOUS DISCOURSES. 6.1. Gender and literary discourse. 6.2. Sex, gender and advertising. 6.3. Language, media and gender. 6.4. Law and the sexes. |