This course examines how language contributes to the social construction of gender identities, and how gender impacts language use and ideologies. The study of language in its social context, with emphasis on the different types of linguistic variation and the principles underlying them. LIGN 101 or consent of instructor. How people's ordinary command of language and their reasoning skills are used to manipulate them. LIGN 101 or consent of instructor.
Students lead a class section of a lower-division linguistics course.
They also attend a weekly meeting on teaching methods. May be repeated for credit, up to a maximum of four units. The student undertakes a program of research or advanced reading in linguistics under the supervision of a faculty member of the Department of Linguistics. May be repeated for credit.