UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT
ENG- 422: Language and Gender
Course Code: ENG- 422
Instructor’s Name: Dr Musarat Yasmin
Alvi
E-mail: musarat.yasmin@uog.edu.pk
Course Description
Course Type:
(Compulsory/Core/Elective)
Goals At the conclusion of the course, the participant will:
Recommended Books
Lectures
Attendance Policy
Course Title: Language and Gender
Office (Room No): R-2
Office Hours:
This course aims at exploring the role of gender as a sociolinguistic
variable in the linguistic behaviour/patterns of males and females.
Participants will learn past and contemporary theoretical approaches to
the analysis of gendered linguistic practices, and examine these
practices against a range of contexts. Through the examination of
issues relating to gender and language use, participants will understand
how linguistic practices and patterns are shaped by gender, culture and
society.
Optional
 describe and analyse the features of linguistic
patterns/practices in relation to gender;
 derive implications through evaluating various theoretical
frameworks/approaches to analysing gendered practices in
written, spoken and visual discourses
 Holmes, J. and Meyerhoff, (2008). The Handbook of
Language and Gender
 Lia Litosseliti, (2006). Gender and Language Theory and
Practice
 Felicity Titjen, Dan Clayton, Marcello Giovanelli (2018).
Language and Gender
32 sessions
A minimum of 70% attendance is required for a student to be
eligible to take the final examination.
The students with less than 70% of the attendance in a course shall be
given the grade SA (Short Attendance) in such a course and shall not
be allowed to take its End Term Exams and will have to reappear in
the course to get the required attendance to be eligible to sit in the
exam when the course is offered the next time.
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Grading The course will be evaluated on the basis of the following percentage:
 Mid Term 25%
 Sessional work 25%
o Presentation 10%
o Assignment 10%
o Quiz 05%
 Final 50%

Session Schedule
Sessions/ Topics Readings
Lectures
Week 1, 2, 3 Historical Perspective Titjen, (2018), Chapter 1
Folk Linguistics
Litosseliti, Chapter 2, 3
Influence of Feminism and Feminist Linguistics
Deficit Approach (Contribution of Lakoff)
Dominance Approach (Dale Spender)
Difference Approach (Maltz and Borker
Performance Approach
Week 4, 5 Language and Gender Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, Chap.1.
Sexism in Language
Litosseliti, chapter 1
Word-order, Generics, Marking gender
Shulz, Semantic Derogation of
Women
Week 6, 7 Gender and Representation * Gender Stereotypes: Reproduction
Stereotypes
and Challenge (Pp. 468)
Mary Talbot
* Gender and Identity: Representation
and Social Action (Pp.487)
Ann Weatherall and Cindy Gallois
Week 8,9 Gender representation in media *Litosseliti (91-121)
Gender in the world of magazines
The construction of gender in advertisement
Week 10 Gender and Language in Education *Litosseliti, chapter 4, 73-88
Gender and language in foreign language
classroom
Week 11, 12 Gender and Identity * Holmes & Meyerhoff, 528-549
Socially constructed selves * Titjen, Chapter 4 (Pp. 61-76)
Framing gender at work place *Litosseliti, chapter 6 (123-145)
Week 13, 14 Approaches to Gender and Language Research Sunderland, Unit A8, B8, C8
Week 15, 16 Presentations