COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LANGUAGE AND GENDER

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 5045 LANGUAGE AND GENDER ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR GÜLSÜM SONGÜL ERCAN

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to lead the students to discover the relation between language and gender, to questionise the sterotypical gender roles which are expressed and sustained by language in the society and to build up a critical view to the students about how the gender is morphologically, semantically or pragmatically coded and constructed in language

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students' stating the outlines of the relation between language and gender
2   Explain the representation of gender in language by using examples
3   Discuss the relationship between social gender roles and the language
4   Questionise the sterotypical gender roles in visual and written texts
5   Questionise the relationship between society-language-gender
6   Doing research on the relation between language and gender, and discuss the findings in this context

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Language and Gender: The relationship between language and gender; gender- socşal gender, difference between man-male-masculinity, difference between woman-female-feminity
2 The relationship between language and mind (Sapir- Whorf Hypothesis)
3 Anthropomorphitism
4 Constituting the gender: denotation, connotation and euphemism
5 Socialisation, Social Knowledge, social role and social identity
6 Sterotypication and categorisation
7 The relationship between language and cognition and social gender
8 Mideterm Exam
9 Cognitive Models, scheme and frame theory
10 Constructing categorisation and ideology
11 Prototypes and sterotypes
12 Political correctness/inappropriateness
13 Language renewal in order to represent both genders in language; liberal and radical approaches.
14 Language and speaking styles; Folklinguistics

Recomended or Required Reading

Coates, J. (1988). Women, Men and Language. London: Longman.
Goddard, A. ve Patterson, L. M. (2000). Language and Gender. London: Routledge
König, G. Ç. (1992). Dil ve Cinsiyet: Kadın ve Erkeklerin Dil Kullanımı. Dilbilim Araştırmaları, s.25-35. Ankara: Hitit Yayıncılık.
Lakoff, R. (1975). Language and Woman's Place. New York: Harper and Row.
Litoselliti, L. ve Sunderland, J. (2002). Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Sunderland, J. (2006). Language and Gender.Oxon: Routledge.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Presentation
3. Debate
4. Homework

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

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-6: The assesment will be held by taking homeworks, project paper, presentations and attendance to the course into consideration.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% attendance to the courses is compulsory.
2. Not attending to a course is not going to be accepted as an excuse to the preperations of presentations, homework and in-class debate
3. Cheating and Plagiarism in midterms, finals and homeworks will be graded as "0" (zero)

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assit.Prof.Dr. G. Songül Ercan
DEÜ Edebiyat Fak. C Blok Ofis No: 153

Office Hours

Wednesday 10:30-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Student Presentations 12 3 36
Practice (Reflection) 6 3 18
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparing assignments 3 8 24
Preparing presentations 3 8 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 202

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.122132
LO.222132
LO.333434
LO.444
LO.52244
LO.6555555

CONTACT INFORMATION
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