Dr. Ingrid Piller

Seminar für Englische Sprache und Kultur, Universität Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 6, D - 20146 HH

ph: 4123-4855, fax: 4123-4856, e-mail: piller@uni-hamburg.de

office hours: F 10:00-11:00 a.m. (Phil 1260)

Language and Gender (II-Seminar; F15-17h; Phil 159)

1. Timetable

23.10.

general introduction

30.10.

theory of language and gender studies

06.11.

sexist language

13.11.

canceled: Kiel-conference Perceiving and Performing Gender

20.11.

self-help: rhetoric for women

27.11.

canceled

04.12.

discourses of femininity and masculinity

11.12.

contested meanings: sexual harassment

18.12.

conversations

08.01.

humor

15.01.

silence

22.01.

guest lecture: Dr. Friederike Braun, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauenforschung, Kiel, Geschlecht in einer genuslosen Sprache

29.01.

computer-mediated communication

05.02.

multilingualism and second language acquisition


2. Reading assignments

On average you will need 2 hours per week to read the assignments!

30.10.

  1. Eckert, Penelope and Sally McConnell-Ginet. 1992. Think practically and look locally. Language and gender as community-based practice. Annual Review of Anthropology 21, 461-490. Repr. in Roman, Camille, Suzanne Juhasz and Christanne Miller, eds, The Women and Language Debate. A Sourcebook. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 432-460

06.11.

  1. Romaine, Suzanne. 1997. Gender, grammar and the space in between. In Helga Kotthoff and Ruth Wodak, eds, Communicating Gender in Context. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 51-76

  2. Braun, Friederike. 1997. Making men out of people. The MAN principle in translating genderless forms. In Helga Kotthoff and Ruth Wodak, eds, Communicating Gender in Context. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 3-29

20.11.

  1. Crawford, Mary. 1995. The Assertiveness Bandwagon. In Crawford, Mary. Talking Difference. On Gender and Language. London: Sage, 49-85

  2. Cameron, Deborah. The language-gender interface: challenging co-optation. In Bergvall, Victoria L., Janet M. Bing and Alice F. Freed, eds, Rethinking Language and Gender Research. Theory and Practice. London: Longman, 31-53

04.12.

  1. Talbot, Mary. 1995. A Synthetic Sisterhood: False Friends in a Teenage Magazine. In Hall, Kira and Mary Bucholtz, eds, Gender Articulated. Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge, 143-165

  2. Talbot, Mary M. 1997. 'Randy Fish Boss Branded a Stinker': Coherence and the Construction of Masculinities in a British Tabloid Newspaper. In Johnson, Sally and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, eds, Language and Masculinity. Oxford: Blackwell, 173-187


11.12.

  1. Ehrlich, Susan and Ruth King. 1995. Consensual sex or sexual harassment: negotiating meaning. In Bergvall, Victoria L., Janet M. Bing and Alice F. Freed, eds, Rethinking Language and Gender Research. Theory and Practice. London: Longman, 153-172

  2. Moonwoomon, Birch. 1995. The writing on the wall: a border case of race and gender. In Hall, Kira and Mary Bucholtz, eds, Gender Articulated. Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge, 447-467

18.12.

  1. Coates, Jennifer. 1997. Women's Friendships, Women's Talk. In Wodak, Ruth, ed, Gender and Discourse. London: Sage, 245-262

  2. Cameron, Deborah. 1997. Performing Gender Identity: Young Men's Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity. In Johnson, Sally and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, eds, Language and Masculinity. Oxford: Blackwell, 47-64

08.01.

  1. Crawford, Mary. 1995. On Conversational Humor. In Crawford, Mary. Talking Difference. On Gender and Language. London: Sage, 129-169

15.01.

  1. Gal, Susan. 1991. Between Speech and Silence. The Problematics of Research on Language and Gender. In di Leonardo, Micaela, ed, Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge. Repr. in Roman, Camille, Suzanne Juhasz and Christanne Miller, eds, The Women and Language Debate. A Sourcebook. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 407-431

  2. Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 1995. Cries and Whispers: The Shattering of the Silence. In Hall, Kira and Mary Bucholtz, eds, Gender Articulated. Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge, 25-50.

29.01.

  1. Hall, Kira. 1996. Cyberfeminism. In Herring, Susan C, ed, Computer-Mediated Communication. Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 147-170

  2. Herring, Susan, Deborah A. Johnson and Tamra DiBenedetto. 1995. "This Discussion Is Going Too Far!": Male Resistance to Female Participation on the Internet. In Hall, Kira and Mary Bucholtz, eds, Gender Articulated. Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge, 67-96

05.02.

  1. Ehrlich, Susan. 1997. Gender as social practice. Implications for second language acquisition. SSLA 19, 421-446.

  2. Kramsch, Claire and Linda von Hoene. 1994. Rethinking the teaching and learning of foreign languages through feminist and sociolinguistic theory. In Bucholtz, Mary, A. C. Liang, Laurel A. Sutton and Caitlin Hines, eds, Cultural Performances. Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley Women and Language Group, 378-388

  3. Siegal, Meryl. 1994. Second-language learning, identity, and resistance: White women studying Japanese in Japan. In Bucholtz, Mary, A. C. Liang, Laurel A. Sutton and Caitlin Hines, eds, Cultural Performances. Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley Women and Language Group, 642-650

  4. Pujolar i Cos, Joan. 1997. Masculinities in a Multilingual Setting. In Johnson, Sally and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, eds, Language and Masculinity. Oxford: Blackwell, 86-106



3. How to get a “Schein”

  1. attendance, participation (20%)

  2. presentation (40%)

  3. term paper (40%)

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