THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION AND TRANSGRESSION OF GENDER III
Language is a crucial resource for identity construction while it has no privileged status in this process. Rather, language is connected to an entire network of practices, knowledges, and subject positions.
—Kira Hall & Mary Bucholtz, Gender Articulated (15)
Required Readings
- In Holmes and Meyerhoff The Handbook of Language and Gender:
- Kulick, Ch. 5 “Language and Desire,” (119-141)
- Besnier, Ch. 12 “Crossing Genders, Mixing Languages: The Linguistic Construction of Transgenderism in Tonga” (279-301)
- Hall, Ch. 15 “Exceptional Speakers: Contested and Problematized Gender Identities,” (353-380)
- Leap, Ch. 17 “Language and Gendered Modernity,” (401-422)
- Weatherall and Gallois, Ch. 21 “Gender and Identity: Representation and Social Action,” (487-508)
- Kiesling, Ch. 5 “Prestige, Cultural Models, and Other Ways of Talking About Underlying Norms and Gender,” (509-527)
Due This Week
Weekly journal entry including main points from chapters in Holmes and Meyerhoff The Handbook of Language and Gender and observations about language from daily life.