Language Gender and Interaction
This course explores notions of gender as they emerge and are constructed in language in interaction, and the role that gender plays in the structure of human interaction. Readings include both ethnographic studies and theoretical work about language and gender across a range of disciplines and cultures. Early on in the course students will collect language data from a context of their choice, and this data will be analyzed both collaboratively and individually in terms of the concepts and issues examined in the readings and in class discussions.