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Course Details

Course Title Language and Gender
Campus Swarthmore
Semester Fall 2023
Registration ID LING 112 G01
Credit 1
Department Linguistics
Instructor
Times and Days
W 01:15pm-04:00pm
Room Location Pearson Hall 006
Course Info

How do linguistic features and behaviors contribute to the complex social construction of gender, by individuals or at a community level? This course will cover a range of topics relating to gender and linguistics, including the morphosyntax of grammatical gender, speech act theory, sociophonetic variation as a part of gender presentation, cross-linguistic comparisons of gender marking on pronouns, and more. Several subdisciplines of linguistics will be covered, including phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics.


Prerequisite:

LING 001 , LING 025 , LING 040 , LING 043 , LING 045  or LING 050  or by instructor permission.

Notes
Course Record Number:
19348
Enrollment Limit:
25
Current Enrollment:
9
Notes:
ESCH and GSST eligible
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