Week 12: Language and Gender
*Difference between sex and gender
*Gender roles and stereotypes
*Judith Butler's idea of gender performativity
*Difference in the attitudes of males and females in the light of Deborah Tannen's concept
*Difference in the male and female language in the light of Robin Lakoff's perspective
*Simone de Beauvoir's concept of social construction of gender, ' One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman'
Portrayl of women in media
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Course Material
- Week 1 : Introduction
- Week 2 : Text and Discourse Analysis
- Week 3: Difference between text, co-text, context, and language code
- Week 4: Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis
- Week 5: An Interdisciplinary Nature of Discourse Analysis
- Week 6 : Models of Critical Discourse Analysis
- Week 7: Similarities and Differences Between Three Models of Critical Discourse Analysis
- Week 8 : Language and Ideology 1
- Week 9: Language and Power
- Week 10: Language and Culture
- Week 11: Language and Identity
- Week 12: Language and Gender
- Week 13: Multimodality
- Week 4: Interactional, Transactional and Functional view of Language
- Language and Ideology 2
- Week 16: Discursive and coercive practices
- Chapters 16
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Ms. Tazanfal Tehseem
