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[fee]

Dear Dr Hardman

Thank you so much for your prompt reply. I had a look at your website and I
will definitely be able to use some of your material and quoted literature.

I am also convinced that this is a really important topic and will be in the
future.

Have a good week and thank you again for your kind help

Felicia Kreiselmaier




am 11.4.2005 16:36 Uhr schrieb MJ Hardman unter hardman at UFL.EDU:

> I suggest you look at my website, especially under 'course summaries'
> 'language and gender'.  My course is specifically about how language
> structures gender, how it is recreated sentence by sentence every day.  Some
> of my work is available under 'resources' inside the course materials.  You
> may also find some material of interest under 'language and
> culture/worldsense' & 'language and violence'.  The texts I use are also of
> this type.  Oyewumi is an especially rich source.  Other of my work is
> listed on the right side of my website.
> 
> My most recent work -- Language, Gender and War -- is listed under
> 'recent books'.
> 
> I wish you well with your work -- this is an important topic.
> 
> Dr. MJ Hardman
> website:  http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/
> 
> 
> On 04/11/2005 5:58 AM, "fee" <feliciak at STUDENTS.UNIBE.CH> wrote:
> 
>> Dear GALA-Member
>> 
>> My name is Felicia Kreiselamier and I am a student at the University of
>> Berne in Switzerland. Over the past four and a half years I have been
>> studying English linguistics as a major, media studies as a first minor and
>> cultural and social anthropology as a second minor. I have graduated in both
>> media studies and anthropology, and am now left with English Linguistics,
>> which I intend to graduate in by April 2006. Within the course of my study
>> plan it is required to write an 80 to 100-page thesis similar to a masters
>> thesis in the major.
>> 
>> Within my thesis, I am interested in how language in use in communities of
>> practice can effect our perception of gender performativity and identity and
>> can lead to a defined and normatively regulated gender performance. I am
>> trying to illustrate how we “do³ gender with the help of clichés and
>> stereotypes uttered randomly by individuals in everyday conversation, songs,
>> media, etc.
>> 
>> When reading and researching into the literature on language and gender I
>> found it very difficult to find material dealing with language and gender in
>> the way that I intend to do. I found heaps of literature dealing with
>> male/female talk, conversation tactics/behaviour, gendered structures in
>> language, etc. I don¹t want to deal with Œgendered language, i.e. how men
>> talk differs from women talk but how language ³paints² gender images, how
>> its use and not behaviour influences gender practices. I am interested as
>> language as the means of expressing social practice through discourse. I aim
>> to understand and explain the complexity and intercontextuality of language
>> and gender in social communities of practice.
>> 
>> In search for advice on recent studies, research done in the area of
>> language and gender, I decided to turn to you. If you could give me any
>> hints, clues, references as to where I could find recent studies and
>> publications dealing with language and gender.
>> 
>> Thank you very much for your time and help.
>> 
>> I hope to hear from you soon.
>> 
>> Best Wishes
>> 
>> Felicia Kreiselmaier
>> 
>>