LaGeS group meeting, 2 March, 18:30, room 601A - The Public View of Language and Gender: Still Wrong After All These Years – discussion of an article by Prof. Alice F. Freed

WA Language Gender and Sexuality Research Group
 

invites everyone to a meeting

 
in which we will discuss an article by Prof. Alice F. Freed

The Public View of Language and Gender

Still Wrong After All These Years

 
2 March, Wednesday, 18:30, room 601A
 

Despite decades of linguistic research, stereotypes about the way women and men speak are alive and kicking. In her article Freed reviews news articles and online sources for evidence that the public is continuing to be exposed to a vast amount of information about sex and gender difference, which is reinforced by so-called scientific evidence from controversial brain science research.
 
Alice F. Freed is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Her research interests include language and gender, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. She is author co-editor of Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice (with Victoria Bergvall and Janet Bing, 1996).
 

Reference:
 
Freed A., 2014. The public view of language and gender: Still wrong after all these years. In S. Ehrlich, M. Meyerhoff & J. Holmes (Eds.), The handbook of language, gender and sexuality (2nd ed.) pp. 625-645. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
 

The handbook of language, gender and sexuality is available at the Novum Library. If you need help getting access to the article, please, contact Łukasz Woźniakowski.