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Gender Construction Assessment•Presentation•Weeks 8 & 9•Free Topic choice: i.e. you get to choose to do any project related to the topics we covered in class –anything at all that interests you•Draw on appropriate academic materials (Google Scholar allows you to access many academic articles for free)•In-class presentation (5 minutes)•Evaluates your speaking, presentation, research, preparation skills and cohesiveness of materials Breaking with traditional roles•Difference & Dominance approach: the two genders are distinct and differ in their roles and functions•Social Constructionist theory: both genders have the opportunity toconstruct & re-construct their identity Gender vs. Sex•Sex = biological/binary (99.8% of humans)•Gender = sociocultural/fluid Gender continuum•Language and gender research suggests (more often than not) that females act relatively consistently as a category as do males, however:•Gender is not a binary category•Gender can be and is constructed along a continuum of femininity and masculinity Gender construction theory•Linked to discursive psychology•Gender as action in talk•Identity is not viewed as something that people are•Identity is viewed as something that people doduring the business of everyday interaction Social Construction theory & linguistics•Speech too is a repeated stylization of the body•i.e.masculine and feminine styles of talking identified by researchers are a ‘congealed’ result of repeated acts by social actors who constitute themselves as ‘proper’ men or women•Language is seen as both•A medium for expressing gender identity•A medium for reflecting gender identity Social onstructiontheory & Linguistics•Gender is conceptualized as a process •Something we do, produce, accomplish, perform•Gender identity is a communicative achievement•Gender is an effect of discursive practices Gender Construction•Gender construction is not necessarily about assuming one identity or another identity as a permanent fixture•Gender construction is about negotiation and renegotiation of gender identities•Gender construction is thus more about foregrounding a particular gender identity depending on the social and contextual circumstances (both in speech style and behaviour) Gender construction theory•Many language and gender studies assume that participants have an internalized gender identity•People’s speech is seen as causally related to that identity•Gender construction theory deviates from this approach to language and gender Gender construction theory•Characteristics•Dynamic•Flexible•Negotiable•Changeable Gender construction theory•Unlike difference and dominance approach that view gender as a socially defined, fixed role, gender construction theory sees gender as a flexible category that•We create according to our own wishes•Is not created for us by society•Is non-conformist in nature•Is individual and independent•Is more shared by communities of practices than society at large Homework•Reading•Textbook. Talbot, M. (2010). Language and Gender. –Chapter 7.•Further Reading•Textbook. Talbot, M. (2010). Language and Gender. –Chapter 11.