Gender & Language
LIN4656/5657
WST4930/6935
Fall 2003
T 7 MAT 11 R7-8
MAT 102
Dr. MJ Hardman
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TEXTS:
Brantenberg, Gerd. Egalia's Daughters: A
Satire of the Sexes. The Seal Press. Translated from Norwegian by Louis
Mackay.
Elgin, Suzette Haden A FIRST DICTIONARY AND
GRAMMAR OF LÁADAN, Second Edition. Society for the Furtherance and Study of
Fantasy and Science
Fiction, Inc. SF3.
Frank, Francine and Frank Ashen (1984). Language and the Sexes. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Hardman, M.J. A Language Sampler for
Language and Perception. Workbook for introductory courses in language and
culture. Qillq
Imprenta. 1996.
Russ, Joanna. How to Suppress Women's
Writing. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1983.
Vonarburg, Elisabeth. The Maerlande Chronicles.
Tesseract Books. 1992.
Wagner, Sally Roesch: Sisters in Spirit:
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists.
Oyewumi, Oyeronke. The Invention of Women:
Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. Minneapolis:
University of
Minnesota Press.
1997.
M.J. Hardman, Anita Taylor, eds. Hearing
Many Voices. Cresskill, N.J. Hampton Press, 2000. The Hampton Press
communication
series.
LIN 4656 - Undergraduate Only
Elgin, Suzette Haden You can't say that to
me! Wiley. 1994.
Cameron, Deborah. Feminism and Linguistic
Theory, 2nd edition. St. Martin's Press. 1992.
Elgin, Suzette Haden. The Gentle Art of
Verbal Self-Defense at Work. Prentice Hall. 2000.
HOME AND CLASS WORK:
Observations each week: workouts from Elgin
books as assigned.
Two short pieces:
one on a woman that could have been a role model for you if you had ever heard
of her (selections from two books on reserve at the library); one a rewrite of
an article changing the point of view to feminine from masculine (nature
articles are especially good for this), sample copy from Women and Language.
Abstracts: Each
abstract one page. (To be shared with classmates)
Graduate:
four (Women and Language, one chapter, one article, class presentation)
Undergraduate:
three (Women and Language, one chapter, class presentation)
Books for Chapter Abstracts:
Tickner, J. Ann. Gender
in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Acheving Global Security. University
of Columbia Press, 1992.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. Reflections
on Gender and Science. New Havn: Yale. 1985.
Roszak, Theodore. The
Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science. Conari
Press: Berkeley, CA. 1999.
Papers:
Graduate:
Three medium papers, each of 10± pages.
Undergraduate:
Three short papers, each of 5± pages.
The
first paper is on difference: Discover something that women have in a different
culture that you would like to have or that is more empowering than anything you
have in your culture or that places women in an agent role where yours does
not. Two examples are in your Sampler.
One paper must be on grammatical treatment of person (with principle categories not marked and description of where in the language sex is marked or not marked) in a non-European language:Undergraduates:
noun/pronoun system
Graduates:
total system
(include how
grammatical system interacts with what you discover)
Presentations of assigned readings in class:
Media-
videos and audios as assigned (in the Language Lab TUR 1341)
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Generic Week: |
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Tuesdays: Observations, novels, media,
writings due |
Thursdays: Readings, Sampler |
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Week 1: Introduction |
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Tuesday, August 26, 2003 |
Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
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Logistics |
Read the following 4 articles in
Derivational Thinking Packet: Cover Page, Sexist Circuits of English; And if We
Lose Our Name, then What About Our Land?; and Gender Through the Levels Available under Resources or at: http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman
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Week 2 |
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Tuesday, September 2, 2003 |
Thursday, September 4, 2003 |
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Observation: Generative Metaphors In English, we have a triad of generative metaphors that are regularly used for each other: war, sports and sex. A generative metaphor is an underlying metaphor that allows us to spin off a lost of other metaphors which everyone easily understands. For example, to make a hit in class, dress to kill, team player in business, and conquer a disease are all war/sports metaphors used outside an actual war or an actual event. Collect and classify all the metaphors you hear that relate: war as sports / sports as war / sex as war /
war as sex / sex as sports / sports as sex Russ: pp 3-19, Chapter
3 SF: Brantenburg pp
1-61 Media: OSCLG videotape
– first and last paper presentations; last with ‘map’ |
Read the following 2 articles in
Derivational Thinking Packet: Derivational Thinking, or Why is Equality so
Difficult?; Andean Ethnography Available under Resources or at: http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman
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Week 3 |
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Tuesday, September 9, 2003 |
Thursday, September 11, 2003 |
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Observation:
Denial of Agency Russ: Chapter 4 Pollution
of Agency SF: Brantenburg pp
62-112 Media: SHE Women’s
language video |
Sampler: Section
One Preliminary pp 1-14 Read the Sampler very carefully and
several times. Some parts you will want to commit to memory, other parts you
will want to reread frequently. Study the Sampler- is presents
the scientific underpinning of all else we do in this course. Frank: Preface, Intro,
Chapter 1- Naming Names Hardman and Taylor:
Introduction Grad: Cameron Chapter
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Week 4: First Abstract Due |
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Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
Thursday, September 18, 2003 |
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Observation:
Pollution of Agency Russ: Chapter 5 Double
Standard of Content SF: Brantenburg pp
113-149 First Abstract:
Review one issue of Women and Language P120.W66 W65 |
Sampler: Section
Two Phonetics pp15-26 Frank: Chapters 2-3 Hardman and Taylor:
#1 and #2 Grad: Cameron Chapter
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Week 5 |
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Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
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Observation:
Double Standard of Content Russ: Chapter 6 False
Categorizing SF: Brantenburg pp
150-199 Media: Wagner Tape
(from SF &LIN) Grad: Elgin at Work: Chapter 1 (work out #1) Chapter 2 (work out # 2 & # 4) |
Sampler: Section
Three Frank: Chapters 4-5 Hardman and Taylor:
#3 and #4 Grad: Cameron Chapter
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Week 6: First Paper Due |
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Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
Thursday, October 2, 2003 |
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Observation:
False Categorizing Russ: Chapter 7 Isolation SF: Brantenburg pp
200-269 Elgin: You Can’t…Intro,
Step 1 (Do the survey and choose 5 questions to hand in, labeling each question) Grad: Elgin at Work: Chapter 3 (work out #10) Chapter 4 (work out #5) |
Sampler: Section
Four Hardman and Taylor:
#5 and #6 Grad: Cameron Chapter
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Week 7 |
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Tuesday, October 7, 2003 |
Thursday, October 9, 2003 |
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Observation:
Isolation Russ: Chapter 8 Anomalousness SF: Vonarburg Part 1
pp 1-152 Media: Eskimo Elgin: You Can’t…Steps
2 and 3 (Choose one of the logs; be sure to label which. Hand in a three- part message log.) Grad: Elgin at Work: Chapter 5 (work out #6) Chapter 6 (workout #2 –include at least one person of both sexes) Láadan: Lessons 1
& 2, Rules 129-134 |
Dr. Ron Kephart |
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Week 8:
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Tuesday, October 14, 2003 |
Thursday, October 16, 2003 |
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Observation:
Anomalousness Russ: Lack of
Models SF: Vonarburg Part 2
pp 153-228 Media: Lectures from Black
Women’s Conference Elgin: You Can’t…Steps
4 and 5 (Hand in 3 and 4 skills practice; do Hostile/Abuse Log) Grad: Elgin at Work: Chapter 7 (work out #3 – two complaints is sufficient) Chapter 8 (work out # 8) Láadan: Lessons 3
& 4, Lessons pp 147-156 |
Sampler: Section
Five Hardman and Taylor:
#7 and #8 Grad: Cameron Chapter
5 Wagner: Read all |
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Week 9 Second Abstract Due (of an article) |
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Tuesday, October 21, 2003 |
Thursday, October 23, 2003 |
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Abstract Due Observation:
Lack of Models From one of the resources listed below, find one woman that you would have liked as a model and prepare a 1-2 page introduction of her for someone younger than yourself- for example elementary or high school. Tingling, Marion. Women into the Unknown:
a sourcebook on women explorers and travelers.
G Greenwood Press: Westport, CT. 1989 (Call # G200.T55 1989; you will find other
relevant books on this shelf.) Gaylor, Annie Laurie. Women Without
Superstitions… Freedom from Religion Foundation: Madison,
WI. 1997. (Call # BL2747.5.W65 1997) Vare, Ethelie Ann and Greg Ptacek. Mothers
of Invention…Morrow: New
York. 1988. (Call # T36.V36 1988) SF: Vonarburg Part 3
pp 229-289 (sections 1-5) Elgin: You Can’t…Steps
6 and 7 (Do the VAP examples, choose one of the logs) Grad: Elgin at Work: Chapter 9 (work out #1) Chapter 10 (work out #1) Láadan: Lessons 5
& 6 Songs/Psalms |
Sampler: Section
Six Sampler: Section
Seven Hardman and Taylor:
#9, #10, and #11 Oyewumi: Preface, Acknowledgements, Orthography Grad: Cameron Chapter
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Abstract Discussion |
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Week 10: Second Paper Due |
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Tuesday, October 28, 2003 |
Thursday, October 30, 2003 |
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Observation:
using female references to insult males SF: Vonarburg Part 3
pp 290-350 (sections 6-9) Elgin: You Can’t…Step 8
– do log Grad: Elgin at Work: Chapter 11 (work out #7) Chapter 12 (work out #1) Chapter 13 (build a reality bridge for some problem in your life, for a purpose that meets your needs) |
Sampler:
Appendices / Review Hardman and Taylor:
#12 and #13 Oyewumi: Chapter 1 Grad: Cameron Chapter
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Week 11 |
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Tuesday, November 4, 2003 |
Thursday, November 6, 2003 |
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Observation:
Keep track of all the pairings you hear of women and men by whatever terms- girls and boys, dolls and guys, Jill and Jack, Eve and Adam- whatever. You are to keep a running tally on which comes first: the female referent or the male referent. Bring your list and tally written up on a sheet of paper. Observe both your own behavior and official usage. SF: Vonarburg Part 3
pp 351-396; Part 4 pp 397-435 (sections 1-2) Media: Language
Includes/Language Excludes (WISCON) Láadan: Lessons 7
& 8, Days…135- 138, Lessons 9 &10 |
Hardman and Taylor:
#14, #15 and #16 Oyewumi: Chapters
2 & 3 Grad: Cameron Chapters
8 & 9
Language and the manipulation of teen women's identity :
creating deficiency, subverting agency and devaluing teen women's personhood
on the multiple levels of discourse in teen women's magazines w/ Redux from
The Language of the Night² edition of The
Left Hand of Darkness
Van Dyk |
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Week 12 |
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Tuesday, November 11, 2003 |
Thursday, November 13, 2003 |
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Veteran’s Day - No Class |
Hardman and Taylor:
#17 and #18 Oyewumi: Chapter 4 Grad: Cameron Chapter
10 Keller, Evelyn Fox. Reflections on Gender and Science. New Havn:
Yale. 1985. on the Sexual Psychology of Science. Conari Press: Berkeley, CA.
1999. |
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Week 13: Abstract Due (Grad Only) |
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Tuesday, November 18, 2003 |
Thursday, November 20, 2003 |
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Observation: Observation: Observe examples of women-as-victim in the subject slot, especially in the news media but also in conversation. Focus particularly on the use of the passive voice to accomplish this. This is called the PASSIVE EXONERATIVE.
SF: Vonarburg: Part
4 pp 436-509 (sections 3-6) Media: Did Elgin get it
right? (WISCON) Láadan: Lessons
11 & 12, Dict. 61-90 |
Oyewumi: Chapter 5
(end) Cohn, Carol.
“Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defence Intellectuals.” Exposing Nuclear Phallacies. pp 127-159 (available in Library West Call #JX1974.7
.E97 1989
or at:
<http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/Cohn.pdf> Question for Final
Due Tickner, J. Ann. Gender in International Relations:
Feminist Perspectives on Acheving Global Security. University of Columbia
Press, 1992. Enriquez
Peters |
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Week 14 Third Paper Due |
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Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
Thursday, November 27, 2003 |
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Observation:
Following Men and Mooses article, rewrite an article of your choice Observation:
Seminal Metaphors SF: Vonarburg Part 4
pp 510-567 Láadan: Lessons
13 & 14, Dict 91-128 |
Thanksgiving Holiday – No Class |
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Week 15 |
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Tuesday, December 2, 2003 |
Thursday, December 4, 2003 |
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Book Presentations |
Book Presentations Exam Questions Passed Out |
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Week 16 |
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Tuesday, December 9, 2003 |
Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
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Reread
Derivational Thinking Packet (Last Class) |
Reading Day – No Class |
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Final Exam: Monday, December 15, 2003 Anytime
1pm – 5pm |
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