Linguistic Choices |
Most people in the world are bilingual or multilingual, and those who are not have a range of stylistic resources within their one language. This week will focus on the important role of gender in our use of linguistic varieties. |
ReadingsGal, Susan. 1978.Peasant men can't get wives: Language change and sex roles in a bilingual community. Language in Society, 7.1-16.Besnier, Niko. 2002. Transgenderism, locality, and the Miss Galaxy beauty pageant in Tonga. American Ethnologist, 29.534-66. Fader, Ayala. 2007. Redeeming sacred sparks: Syncretism and gendered langauge shift among Hasidic Jews in New York. Journal of linguistic anthropology. 17:1. 1-23. Recommended ReadingsHolmquist, Jonathan. 1985. Social correlates of a linguistic variable: A study in a Spanish village. Language in Society, 14.191-203.Sidnell, Jack. 1999. Gender and pronominal variation in an Indo-Guyanese Creole-speaking community. Language in society, 28.367-99. Hill, Jane. 1987.Women's speech in modern Mexicano. In Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective, ed. by S. U. Philips, S. Steele and C. Tanz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 121-60. |