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Understand the historical development of gender, sexuality and discourse in various sociocultural and communicative contexts.

 

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• To enable participants to make links between their own social experience and the topic of gender, sexuality and discourse.
• To enable participants to use discourse analysis to examine issues of gender, sexuality and discourse.
• To conduct an analytical response on gender, sexuality and discourse.

 

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The course will cover the following topics:

1. GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN EVERYDAY DISCOURSE
2. GENDER AND SEXUALITY: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
3. GENDER, SEXUALITY & SEXUAL IDENTITY
4. DISCOURSE AS PRACTICE
5. MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
6. INTERACTION, IDENTITY & PERFORMATIVITY

 

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1. Participation in lectures, tutorial discussions, and online forum. 20%

2. Reading responses. 10%

3. Research proposal (transcription exercises 5%, annotated bibliography 15%, outline 20%). 40%

4. Final research paper. 30%

 

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Course Textbooks

Kiesling, S.F. (2019). Language, Gender & Sexuality: An introduction. London: Routledge.

Sauntson, H. (2020). Researching Language, Gender & Sexuality. London: Routledge.

Recommended Readings

Ehrlich, S., Meyerhoff, M., and Holmes, J. (eds.) (2014). The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA; Oxford.

Milani, T.M (ed.) (2017) Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, and Dislocations. Routledge; London.