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Campus | Swarthmore |
Semester | Fall 2023 |
Registration ID | LING112G01 |
Course Title | Language and Gender |
Credit | 1 |
Department | Linguistics |
Instructor | Conrod,Kirby |
Times and Days | W 01:15pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | Pearson Hall 006 |
Additional 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. |
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