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TUESDAYS
Always Coming Home
Observation
Non-violent language construction
Collateral
Language
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THURSDAYS
Hardman & Taylor
Ancient
Futures / Tickner
Elgin
Media
Class Presentations
Hand
in Papers
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January
+ Week One
Monday, Jan 9, 2006 Classes
Start
Tuesday, Jan 10, 2006
Introduction
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Thursday, Jan 12, 2006
Hardman and Taylor
M.J.
Hardman & Anita Taylor
Introduction 1
War, Language and
Gender, What New
Can be Said? Framing the Issues 3
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+ Week Two
Monday, Jan 16, 2006 MLK day — no
classes
Tuesday, Jan 17, 2006
LeGuin: Stone
Telling, Part One 7-42
Stone Telling, Part Two
173-201
Collateral Language pp 3-13
Observation:
Collect violent metaphors from as
many fields as you can find.
Specify the fields.
Non-violent language construction:
Rewrite
any three recasting with a nonviolent metaphor.
Grads:
Write a description of Denial of Agency for those who have never
heard of it.
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Thursday, Jan 19, 2006 Hardman and Taylor
Geography
Lessons 20
Patricia Monaghan
Rhetoric, Patriarchy & War:
Explaining the Dangers
of “Leadership” in Mass
Culture 21
Mary E. Clark
Ancient Futures Part One chap
1-2
Elgin Staying Well… 1:2 2:4
Media:
Stanford tape on derivational thinking video
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+ Week Three
Tuesday, Jan 24, 2006
Le Guin:
Stone Telling, Part Three 340-386 = 46 pages
Collateral
Language Chapter 1
Observation: Choose one field and
collect all of the violence metaphors
you can find in that
field; organize them as seems appropriate
Non-violent
language construction: Rewrite three, recasting with
a
nonviolent metaphor.
Grads: Write a description of
Pollution of Agency for those who
have never heard of
it.
Handout: Denial of Agency
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Thursday, Jan 26, 2006 Hardman and Taylor
‘Pack
Your Heat and Work the Streets’ – Weapons and the
Active Construction
of Violent Masculinities 29
Henri
Myrttinen
Ancient Futures Part One chap 3-4- 5
Elgin
Staying Well… chap 3:5 4:3˜6˜7
Media: In
whose honor? Video
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+ Week Four
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
LeGuin: to
page 53
Collateral Language Chapter 2
Observation:
Denial of Agency
Non-violent language construction:
Rewrite your observation
without the denial, but still
interesting.
Grads: Write a description of False
Categorization (or whatever my
name for it is by this time) for
those who have never heard of it.
Handout: Pollution
of Agency
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+ February
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Hardman and
Taylor
Deformities of the Great War: The Narratives of Mary
Borden
and Helen Zenna Smith 35
Laurie Kaplan
History
Lessons 44
Elisabeth Kuhn
Ancient Futures Part One chap
6- 7
Elgin Staying Well… 1:2 2:4 also do the
Practice techniques in your notebook
Media: Jones,
The New Racism
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+ Week Five
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
LeGuin: to
page 111
Collateral Language Chapter 3
Observation:
Pollution of Agency
Non-violent language construction:
Rewrite your
observation without the pollution, but still
interesting.
Grads: Write a description of Isolation
for
those who have never heard of it.
Handout:
False Categorization
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Thursday, February 9, 2006 Hardman and Taylor
A
Legacy of Pacifism: Virginia Woolf and Pat Barker 45
Laurie
Vickroy
Ancient Futures Part Two chap 8-9
Elgin
Staying Well… chap 7:10
Elgin Disagreeable, Part One
Chap 2
Hand in: What did you learn as a child about
hostile language?
Media: Spirit -- the Indian in the
Global Mind audio
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+ Week Six
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
LeGuin: to
page 148
Collateral Language Chapter 4
Observation:
False Categorization
Non-violent language construction:
Rewrite
your observation without the false categorizing,
but still interesting.
Grads: Write a description of
Anomolousness
for those who have never heard of it.
Handout:
Isolation
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 Hardman and
Taylor
Boundaries, Borders, and Female Identity in German
Women Writers of World War I 51
Patricia Marchesi
Original
Guilt 58
Elisabeth Kuhn
Ancient Futures Part Two chap
10-11
Elgin Staying Well… chap 8:1(2, 6)
Elgin
Disagreeable, Part Two Chap 3 From p 53 -- ask/answer
these
questions of three incidents of verbal abuse from your life
(current, or in memory)
Media: Sylvia
Winter, Prof of Spanish, Stanford - Rethinking Columbus.
On
‘Connor calling’ - a local talk show. Note both the
ideas of the speaker
and the ways in which the host and the
call-ins react to her. Keep in mind
all the various kinds of
verbal abuse as well. Note especially intonation
patterns that
accompany otherwise OK words, as well as rather odd phrases.
What
are they doing within DT?
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+ Week Seven First Paper
Tuesday, February 21,
2006
LeGuin: to page 201
Collateral
Language
Observation: Isolation
Non-violent
language construction: Rewrite your observation without
the
isolation, but still interesting.
Handout:
Anomolousness
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Thursday, February 23, 2006
Hardman and Taylor
The
Limits of Inclusivity: Student Constructions of Germanness in the
Wake of
the Wars of Liberation 59
Karin Breuer
For the
Record 64
Charlotte Otten
Ancient Futures Part Two chap
12-13
Elgin Staying Well… chap 9:2
Elgin
Disagreeable, Part Two Chap 4 - Do the exercise on p. 70 using
C-Span;
then try it once with a living person; report on your
experience.
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+ Week Eight
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
LeGuin: to
page 250
Collateral Language
Observation:
Anomolousness
Non-violent language construction:
Rewrite your observation
without the anomolousness, but still
interesting.
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+ March
Thursday, March 2, 2006
Hardman and
Taylor
Feminine Style and the Rehumanization of the Enemy:
Peacemaking Discourse in
Ladies Home Journal, 1945-1946
65
James J. Kimble
Ancient Futures Part Two chap
14
Elgin Disagreeable, Part Two Chap 5
Elgin
Staying Well Chapter 10:3&4
Media: Manufacturing
Consent: Chomsky and the Media
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+ Week Nine
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
LeGuin: to
page 304
Collateral Language Chapter 9 Justice & Chapter 10 Targets
Observation:
Collect ranking comparisons that you make from as many fields
as possible during the week -- organize by domains. Do not include
numerical rankings.
Non-violent language construction: Write
a non-hierarchical way of expressing three of them
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Thursday, March 9, 2006
Hardman and Taylor Identity
Crisis: Gender, Public Discourse, and 9/11 71 Julie Drew
Patriot
Game 78 Patricia Monaghan
Ancient Futures Part Three chap
15-16
Tickner chap 1
Elgin Staying Well…
chap 11:4
Elgin Disagreeable, Part Three Chap 6 p. 103 Apply the two
steps to some situation in your own life.
Media:
none
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+ Week Ten First Paper
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
LeGuin: to page 376
Collateral Language Chapter 11 Terrorism
Observation: Collect the ranking comparisons
that you make during the week directly related to people.
Non-violent language construction: Write a non-hierarchical
way of expressing yourself for three of these
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Thursday, March 23, 2006
Hardman and Taylor Friendly
Fire 78 Patricia Monaghan
Explosive Baggage: Female Palestinian
Suicide Bombers and the Rhetoric of Emotion 79 Terri Toles Patkin
Ancient Futures Part Three chap 17-18
Tickner chap 2
Elgin Staying Well… chap 12
Elgin Disagreeable, Part
Three Chap 7 & 8 Chap 7 - p. 123 - apply the three steps to
some situation in your life. Chap 8 - VAPs again -- use SHE’s
techniques to construct an alternate to some VAP you have heard or
produced.
Media: None
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Week Eleven
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
LeGuin: to
page 408
Collateral Language Chapter 12 Unity & Chapter 13 Vital Interests
Observation: based on
Collateral Language
Non-violent language construction: TBA
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
Hardman and Taylor Rescuing
Patriarchy or Saving “Jessica Lynch”: The Rhetorical
Construction of the American Woman Soldier 89
Ancient Futures
Epilogue
Tickner chap 3
Elgin Disagreeable Part Three Chap 9 &
10
chap 9 - p. 155 - construct a 3-part message for some complaint
in your life.
chap 10 - OK - you write a little SF sketch
of aliens arriving on Earth.
Media: Caral (in language lab on 3/21)
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+ April
+ Week Twelve
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
LeGuin: to page 449
Collateral Language Chapter 14 The War On _______
Observation:
Watch a sitcom for the VAPS. Write down 3 of them; count
all of them. Identify which type for each of the five.
Non-violent language construction: Analyze the 3 that you
wrote down; specify the presuppositions; answer them so as to
obviate a continuation of the abuse. If you can, invent an
equivalent funny sequence that is not a VAP.
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Thursday, April 6, 2006
Hardman and Taylor John W.
Howard III and Laura C. Prividera Subverting the Rhetorical
Construction of Enemies Through Worldwide Enfoldment 98 Kimberly
C. Elliott
Tickner chap 4
Media: Helena Norberg-Hodge
“Relook at Development”
Fifth Presentation
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+ Week Thirteen
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
LeGuin:
to page 499
Collateral Language Appendix and Review
Observation: based
on Collateral Language
Non-violent language construction: TBA.
Bring (at least) one question for the final exam. Essay
format to be answered in a half hour.
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Thursday, April 13, 2006
Hardman and Taylor M.J. Hardman
& Anita Taylor Introduction 1 War, Language and Gender, What
New Can be Said? Framing the Issues 3
Tickner chap 5
Sixth Presentation
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+ Week Fourteen Second Paper
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
LeGuin: 500 to END
Observation: Observe and report on:
1) your own use of power words -- words that would impose your will on
another, without a specific request from the other person.
2) others use of power words toward yourself
3) power words in general in the culture, e.g., in political language
Non-violent language
construction: Choose three of the incidents and rewrite what happened as though
everyone involved believed that it was immoral/unethical to impose one’s will
on another.
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
Read “Houston Houston do
you Read” by James Tiptree Jr.; observe the contrastive
language of the women and the men; identify the types of violence
used by the men. In what ways is the women’s language
constructed nonviolently?
The editorial from W&L on Feminism as an Imperialistic construct
The article on 'gentiles' as a new literary form in the Andes
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+ Week Fifteen
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
TBA
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Classes End
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+ Exam
L&V Wednesday May 3, 7:30 - 9:30 AM
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