{"id":369,"date":"2020-10-13T20:16:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T00:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/?page_id=369"},"modified":"2022-05-03T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T19:06:42","slug":"language-race-gender","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/for-current-students\/language-race-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Race &amp; Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span><em>BU Course Number<\/em>:\u00a0CAS LX342\/ GRS LX642<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>Prerequisites<\/em>: CAS LX250 Introduction to Linguistics<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><em>BU HUB:<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>Allows students to earn one Hub unit in\u00a0<em>Social Inquiry I<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>and<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Intellectual Toolkit (Teamwork\/Collaboration)<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Offered at the undergraduate and graduate level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Course Description<\/em><span>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/pkwgfq5k50vba5g\/Erker_LX342_542_642_Syllabus_111521.pdf?dl=0\">Sample Syllabus<\/a>] At first glance, it may not be apparent that language plays a central role in establishing our identities. But if we stop to give this idea the attention it deserves, and if we examine it through the proper lens, we are soon overwhelmed by the ways in which we create and sustain our\u00a0personalities and negotiate our place in the world through language use. In this course, we examine\u00a0the relationship between language and identity from the perspective of sociolinguistic theory, with a special focus on how the\u00a0social categories of race and gender can be seen to condition, predict, and explain patterns of\u00a0language use both in the United States and across the globe. We will examine differences between\u00a0men and women in conversational practice, identifying patterns in such behaviors as turn-taking,\u00a0complementing, story-telling, gossip, swearing, and boasting. We will also rely on the notions of\u00a0overt and covert prestige to assess phonological, syntactic, and lexical variation in a host of speech communities and communicative contexts, including the relatively new domain of online\u00a0communication. Within this framework, we will also asses and in some cases challenge traditional\u00a0conceptions of sex, gender, race, and ethnicity on linguistic grounds, asking what it takes to be\u00a0considered be an \u2018authentic\u2019 speaker of a particular code or linguistic variety and what it means to belong to a speech community or community of practice.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU Course Number:\u00a0CAS LX342\/ GRS LX642 Prerequisites: CAS LX250 Introduction to Linguistics BU HUB:\u00a0Allows students to earn one Hub unit in\u00a0Social Inquiry I\u00a0and\u00a0Intellectual Toolkit (Teamwork\/Collaboration). Offered at the undergraduate and graduate level. Course Description. [Sample Syllabus] At first glance, it may not be apparent that language plays a central role in establishing our identities. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/for-current-students\/language-race-gender\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Language Race &amp; Gender<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3797,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369\/revisions\/625"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}