Liz Cannon                                                                Office: Radford 303
Time and Place:  MWF 11:30-12:30; Swart 101        Office Phone: 0299
Home Phone: 231-4768                                            Office Hours:
E-mail: cannon@uwosh.edu                                        Mondays 2-4pm, Tuesdays 3-4pm
                                                                                    and by appointment
 
Course Description
This course focuses on the broad range of theories surrounding gender, language, and communication issues.  Through reading, discussing, and writing about issues of gender and language, we will address the goal of connecting theory and research to our personal lives.  This course takes the perspective that theory is something one does.  Therefore, we will seek to find relevance and application for the theories about which we will read, discuss, and write.
 
Required Texts:
Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, A Celibate Season
Tannen, Deborah. You Just Don't Understand:  Women and Men in Conversation
Coates, Jennifer.  Language and Genger: A Reader
and Handouts
 
Course Requirements:
Final Paper: (7-10 pages)--20%
Presentation of Final Project --5%
Journal--15%
7 Summaries of articles:  each time the reading is divided into
  Groups A, B, and C you must write up a summary of the article you are assigned to read--25%
2 take-home essay exams--25%
Participation--10%

Attendance is also required--you mist be here mentally as well as physically.  You are allowed one free absence.  After that, absences will affect your grade.
 
Please do not hesitate to come see me if you have any questions or problems with this class.  My office hours are listed above, but we can make an appointment if theses are not convenient for you.  Students with disabilities needing a reasonable accommidation should inform me as soon as possible.

Calendar

THEORETICAL QUESTIONS
Jan 31M:    Introduction
Feb 2 W:    Shields/Howard, 11-78
                   A:  11-32
                   B:  32-56
                   C: 56-78
Feb 4 F:    Shields/Howard, 78-153
                  A: 78-104
                  B: 104-131
                  C: 131-153
Feb 7M:    Shields/Howard, 153-226
                  A: 153-175
                  B: 176-201
                  C: 201-226
Feb 9W:    Shields/Howard, 1-9
                 Theory and Feminism
Feb 11F:   Discuss Journal and Gender

GENGER
Feb 14M:  Arliss, "Explanations Based on Innate Factors" (H)
Feb 16W:  Arliss, "Ecplanations Based on Social Factors: Social Learning Theory" (H)
Feb 18F:  Arliss, "Explanations Based on Cognitive Factors" (H)

LANGUAGE
Sexist
Feb 21M:  Video: The Brain, Gender, and Language
Feb 23W:  A-- Dale Spender, "Extracts from Man Made Language" (H)
                  B--Maria Black and Rosalind Coward, "Linguistic, Social and Sexual Relations: A
                        Review of Dale Spender's Man Mad Language" (H)
Feb 25 F:  C--Ann Bodine, "Androcentrism in Presriptive Grammar: Singular "The', Sex-
                        Indefinite 'He', and 'He or She'" (H)
Non-sexist
Feb 28M:  A--Douglas Hofstadter, "A Person Paper on Purity in Language" (H)
Mar 1 W:  B--Margaret Doyle, "Introduction to The A-Z of Non-Sexist Language (H)
Mar 3 F:   C--Deborah Cameron, "Lost in Translation: Non-Sexist Language"(H)

Pronunciation and Grammar
Mar 6 M: Coates, Chpt. 2: "Sex and Covert Prestige"
Mar 8 W: Coates, Chpt. 6: "Gender and Sociolinguistic Variation"
Mar 10F: ESSAY EXAM #1 DUE

March 13-17 SPRING BREAK

COMMUNICATION
Boys and Girls Talk
Mar 20M: Coates, Chpt 4: "Girl-talk/Boy-talk: Sex Differences in Adolescent Speech"
Mar 22W: Joan Swann, Chpt 3: "Girls' and Boys' talk in the Classroom" (H)
Mar 24F:  Video: Talking 9 to 5

Different Words and Asymmetries
Mar 27M: A--Tannen, Chpts. 1 and 2

Rapport-talk and Gossip
Mar 29W: B--Tannen, Chpts. 3 and 4
Mar 31F: coates, Chpt. 12: "Don't try and make out that I'm nice!' The Different Strategies Women and Men Use when Gossiping"

Lecturing and Silence
Apr 3 M: C--Tannen, Chpt. 5
                    Coates, Chpt. 12: "The Sounds of Silence:  How Men silence Women in Marital Relations"

Dominance
Apr 5W: Tannen, Chpt. 6-7
Apr 7F; Coates, Chpts 13: "Talk Control: An Illustration from the Classroom of Problems in Analysing Male Dominance of Conversation"

Damned
Apr 10M: Tannen, Cpt 8
Cross Talk Across the Ages
Apr 12W:  Tannen, Chpt 9-10
Apr 14F: Coates, Chpt 11: "Women's Place in Everyday Talk"

Same-Sex Talk
Apr 17M: A--Coates, Chpt 18: "Performing Gender Identity: Young Men's Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity"
Apr 19W: B--Otto Jespersen, "The Woman" (H)
April 21F: C-- Robin Lakoff, "Extract from Language and Woman's Place (H)

Women's Talk in the Public Domain
Apr 24M: ESSAY #2 DUE
                    Coates, Chpt. 21: "I don't smile much anymore': Affect, Gender and the
                    Discourof  Pittsburgh Police Officers"
Apr 26W: Coates, Chpts.22: "Not just doctors'orders': Directive-Responce Sequences in
                    Patients' Visits to Women and Men Physicians
Apr 28F: Coates, Chpt, 23: "Women's Ways:  Interactive Patterns in Predominantly Female Research Terms

NEW THEORIES
May 1M:  Coates, Chpt 30 "Women's Talk: The Question of  Sociolinguistic Universals"
May 3W:  Coates, Chpt. 31: "Communities of Practice: Where Language, Gender, and Power all Live"
May 5F:  Coates, Chpt. 32: "The Question of Questions" Beyond Binary Thinking"

PRESENTATIONS
May 8M:  Presentations
May 10W: Presentations
May 12F: Presentations FINAL PAPER AND JOURNAL DUE