| Center |
| Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication |
| Departament |
| English and German |
| Lecturers in charge |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| Short lectures, class discussion and individual/group work. |
| Met. Avaluació |
| (1) Final exam (consisting of any of the theoretical and/or practical issues included in the syllabus); and/or (2) A paper on a topic assigned by lecturer. |
| Bibliografia |
| Cameron, Deborah (ed.) (1990) The Feminist Critique of Language. London: Routledge. Cameron, Deborah & Don Kulick (2003) Language and Sexuality. Cambridge: C.U.P. Eckert, Penelope & Sally McConnell-Ginet (2003) Language and Gender. Cambridge: C.U.P. Flotow, Luise von (1997) Translation and Gender. Translating in the ‘Era of Feminism.’ Manchester/Ottawa: St. Jerome Publishing/University of Ottawa Press. Graddol, David & Joan Swann (1989) Gender Voices. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Lakoff, Robin (1975) Language and Woman’s Place. New York: Harper & Row. Talbot, Mary M. (1998) Language and Gender: An Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press. |
| 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. 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. 3.3. Women and men speaking. The pragmatics of gendered conversation. 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. 7. THE TRANSLATION OF GENDER. |
| Objetius |
| Estudio de los rasgos discursivos característicos de los discursos femenino y masculino en textos en lengua inglesa. Construcción lingüística de las identidades de género. |
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