TITLE: The Public View of Language and Gender: Still "Wrong" After All These Years

DATE: January 11 & January 25, 2013

TIME: 8:30-3:00

LOCATION: University Hall, ADP Center Room 1142

INSTRUCTOR: Alice Freed, Ph.D.

These two seminars consider the astonishing discrepancy that exists between public perceptions of how women and men speak and the findings of language and gender research. We will discuss the amount of press attention given to gender and gender/sex difference and we will examine the sort of misinformation that the media presents to the public. A number of high profile language and gender stories that have appeared in the press in the past year or so will be examined. Finally, we will consider the possible reasons for the mismatch between the public and scholarly view of male and female verbal behavior.

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You must attend both sessions in order to receive PD hours