Course description: Topics covered in the course are: Introduction to discourse, Doing discourse analysis, Women are from Venus-Variation in discourse, The myth of Mars and Venus , From ‘difference’ to ‘performance’, Gender as constructed in and by language, Sexuality/Queer theory, Introduction to the concept of politeness, Politeness Theories and gender, Impoliteness, The dynamics of impoliteness as a situated concept, Gender, impoliteness and power in everyday and institutional talk, Gender and Gendered in online and workplace contexts.
