Language and Gender

3 units

Within an overall approach to cultural analysis stressing the mediation of sociocultural phenomena through language, we focus on the particular case of gender. The class will provide an overview of scholarship on language and gender, following the question of how culturally and socially varying constructs of gender are both constituted and expressed in language use. We will also examine how studies of language and power, politics, and stratification can inform our understanding of gender and will also address methodological issues in the field.