Syllabus:

Language and the Representation of Gender, 7.5 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-05-08

Swedish name: Språk och representation av kön

This syllabus is valid: 2016-08-15 and until further notice

Course code: 1SV036

Credit points: 7.5

Education level: Second cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: English: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Finnish: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
French: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Linguistics: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Russian: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Scandinavian Studies: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Scandinavian Languages: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Spanish: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
German: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail

Responsible department: Department of Language Studies

Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2016-04-29

Required Knowledge

Univ: At least 75 ECTS with academic progression (corresponding to level 61-90 hp in the Swedish academic system) in one of the academic subjects English, Finnish, French, German, Linguistics, Russian, Spanish or Swedish/Scandinavian Languages, or equivalent knowledge. Proficiency in English equivalent to Swedish Upper Secondary course English 6/English Course B.

Literature

Valid from: 2016 week 33

Constructions of Motherhood and Fatherhood in Newspaper Articles on Maternal and Paternal Postpartum Depression.
Alexander Elizabeth M., McMullen Linda M.
Included in:
Gender and Language
Equinox Publishing : 9 : 143-166 pages
Mandatory

Coffey-Glover L
Ideologies of Masculinity in Women’s Magazines: A Critical Stylistic Approach.
Included in:
Gender and Language
Equinox Publishing : 9 : 337-363 pages
Mandatory

Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept
Connell R. W., Messerschmidt James W.
Included in:
Gender & society[Elektronisk resurs]b published in association with Sociologists for Women in Society
Thousand Oaks, Ca : Sage : 2000- : 19 : 829-859 pages
Mandatory

Discourse analysis : an introduction
Georgakopoulou Alexandra, Goutsos Dionysis
2. ed. : Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ. Press : 2004 : 215 s. :
ISBN: 0-7486-2045-1
Mandatory
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Guidelines on Gender-Neutral Language
Unesco :

Mandatory

Gender across languages : the linguistic representation of women and men
Hellinger Marlis., Bussmann Hadumod.
Amsterdam : J. Benjamins : 2001- : v. <1 > :
Mandatory

Gender across languages : the linguistic representation of women and men.
Hellinger Marlis, Bussmann Hadumod
Amsterdam : Benjamin : 2002 : xii, [1], 349 s. :
ISBN: 1-58811-084-2
Mandatory
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Gender across languages : the linguistic representation of women and men
Hellinger Marlis., Bussmann Hadumod.
Amsterdam : J. Benjamins : 2003. : xii, 390 p. :
Mandatory

Gender across languages.
Motschenbacher Heiko., Hellinger Marlis.
Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : John Benjamins Publishing Company : 2015. : 1 online resource (415 pages). :
ISBN: 9789027268860-
Mandatory
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Koller Veronika
Businesswomen and War Metaphors: ’Possesive, Jealous and Pugnacious’?
Included in:
Journal of sociolinguistics
Oxford : Blackwell : 8 : 3-22 pages
Mandatory

Mills Sara
Language and sexism
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 2008 : ix, 178 s. :

ISBN: 978-0-521-80711-1 (hardback)
Mandatory
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The handbook of language and gender
Holmes Janet, Meyerhoff Miriam
Oxford : Blackwell : 2003 : xv, 759 s. :
ISBN: 0-631-22502-1 : £85.00
Mandatory
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