COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND GENDER

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KDN 5035 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND GENDER ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Women's Studies

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÜLSÜM SONGÜL ERCAN

Offered to

Women's Studies

Course Objective

The objectice of this course is to have the students discover the relationship between language and gender; challenge sterotypical gender roles which are expressed and sustained by language in the society and build up a critical view on how gender is morphologically, semantically or pragmatically encoded and constructed in language relating them to feminist theories as well.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To explain the relationship between language and gender in general
2   To explain how gender is constructed in language through examples,
3   To identify streotyped explicit or implicit gender roles in written or spoken texts,
4   To investigate and challenge the relationship between language, gender and society
5   Explain gender roles within the framework of feminist theory,
6   To discuss overlapping and intersecting points of language, gender and feminist theories

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The relationship between language and gender
2 Sexist languages
3 Gender exclusive language use
4 Preferred language use by certain gender groups
5 Gender ideology: socialization, social knowledge, social role, social identity
6 The relationship between language and cognition: cognitive models; schema and frame theories
7 Prototypes and stereotypes
8 Constructing gender: denotation, connotation; euphemism
9 Feminist approaches to language
10 The relationship between language and gender: the effect of context
11 The relationship between language and gender: linguistic variation
12 The research on language and gender

Recomended or Required Reading

1- Coates, J. (1988). Women, Men and Language. London: Longman.
2- Eckert, P. ve Mc Connell-Ginnet, S. (2003). Language and Gender. Cambridge: CUP
3- Goddard, A. ve Patterson, L. M. (2000). Language and Gender. London: Routledge
4- Lakoff, R. (1975). Language and Woman s Place. New York: Harper and Row.
5- Litoselliti, L. ve Sanderland, J. (2002) Gender Identity and Discourse. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
6- Sunderland, J. (2006). Language and Gender. London: Rotledge.
7- Holmes, J. (2008). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. England: Pearson.Wardhaugh, R. (1997). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
8- Ercan, G.S. ve Yağcıoğlu, S. (2007). Gazete köşe yazılarında kaçınma kullanımı ve cinsiyet ilişkisi. Dilbilim Araştırmaları, s. 1-16. Istanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1- Lecture and discussion
2- Question and answer,
3- Weekly readings
4- Assignment
5- Presentation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

All learning outcomes are assessed by midterm exam, final exam, presentatons and assignment.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students are obligated to participate 70% of the lectures
2. All kinds of plagiarism and attempts of plagiarism shall be graded by 0 zero.
3. Students supposed to read the materials before lecture and participate the classroom discussions
4. Students are expected to make presentations about the subjects given by the lecturer.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 142

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.145554554
LO.245554554
LO.345554554
LO.445554554
LO.545554554
LO.645554554