Xeroxes for Gender/Language Game (listed in the order they will be read with dates beside them)
Yamada, Haru. "Speak for Yourself, Listen to Others" (from Different Games, Different Rules), pp. 37-51. (1/14)
Jay, Timothy. "When Children use Dirty Words" (pp. 30-5) and "The Offensiveness of Words" (pp. 181-6), in Cursing in America, 1992. 1/21
Tannen, Deborah. "Fighting for Our Lives," in The Argument Culture, 1999, pp. 3-26. 1/26
*Wolfram, Walt. "Beyond Black English: Implications of the Ann Arbor Decision for Non-Mainstream."in Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications, ed. Dallin Oaks, 1998, pp. 405-17. 12/9
*Nunberg, Geoffrey. "Testimony before the State Legislature on California Proposition 63," in Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications, ed. Dallin Oaks, 1998, pp. 444-47. 2/9
#Guth, Hans. English for a New Generation. 1973. Chapter 3: "Teaching Standard English," 89-123 (on whether teachers should try to teach students "good" English in the classroom). (PE65.G8) 2/20
Lloyd, Donald J. "Our National Mania for Correctness." From Essays on Language and Usage, second edition, eds. Leonard F. Dean and Kenneth G. Wilson (NY: Oxford UP, 1963), 306-11. 2/20
#Leith, Dick. A Social History of English. 1983-- either of the following chapters:
Chapter Three: "Words and Meanings," 61-86 (why and how the meanings of words change). 2/23
Chapter Four: "Grammar," 87-113 (misconceptions about the meaning of grammar; how our grammar has changed). (PE1075.L44 1983)
*Khosroshahi, Fatemeh. "Penguins Don't Care, but Women Do: A Social Identity Analysis of a Whorfian Problem," in Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications, ed. Dallin Oaks, 1998, pp. 260-79. 2/27
*Loftis, Elizabeth. "Language and Memories in the Judicial System," in Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications, ed. Dallin Oaks, 1998, pp. 3-12. 3/3
Yamada, Haru. "Role Models: Working Man, Nurturing Mother" (from Different Games, Different Rules), pp. 121-37. 3/8
*Tannen, Deborah. "Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers," in Language and Gender, ed. Jennifer Coates, 1998, pp. 435-45. 3/10
Leiberman, Marcia. "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (from Gendered Voices, ed. Karen Costello, 1996), pp. 248-59. 3/12
Disy, Jeanne. "The Princess Who Stood on her Own Two Feet" (from Gendered Voices), pp. 260-7. 3/12
*Tannen, Deborah. "The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why," in Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications, ed. Dallin Oaks, 1998, pp. 242-57. 3/15
Joliffe, Lee. "The Disposable Sex: Men in the News" (from Images that Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media, ed., Paul Lester, NY: Praeger, 1996), pp. 97-103. 3/19
Miller, Casey, and Kate Swift, "Semantic Polarization" (from Words and Women, 1991), pp. 59-75. (Optional) 3/29
Nilsen, Alleen. "Sexism in English: A 1990 Update," (from Language Awareness, eds. Paul Eschholz, Alfred Rosa, Virginia Clark, 4th ed., 1986), pp. 1-6. 3/19
*Cameron, Deborah, "Performing Gender Identity: Young Men's Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity" (from Language and Gender: A Reader, ed. Jennifer Coates, 1997), pp. 270-82.
Poems by Jo McDougall 4/14
* means that the article is from Linguistics at Work or Language and Gender, both on reserve.
# means that these articles are not yet xeroxed; you might have to read them on reserve.