AUTUMN QUARTER 1997 CHINESE 889 Seminar in Chinese Linguistics: Language and Gender Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 U.S.A.

Since the early 1970's, there has been an explosion of studies on language and gender that have dealt with English, Japanese, and other languages, although this topic has been largely ignored in the Chinese linguistic literature. This course surveys current and past studies on gender differences in the Chinese language, encompassing such topics as: speech stereotypes; language about men and women; and differences in men's and women's speech and communication styles, with a recognition of the importance of the socio-cultural context in which such communication takes place. The course will also touch upon cross-cultural and cross-linguistic similarities and differences, as well as theoretical issues raised in the general literature.

The course aims to provide students with opportunities to explore and examine gender differences in the Chinese language (including its dialects) through assigned readings, analysis of speech data, surveys, and other relevant activities.

Classes consist of lectures combined with class discussions of assigned readings. Students are expected to read the assigned reading(s) before class, and to participate actively in class discussions and other class activities. Students are also encouraged to provide additional audio- or video-taped data for class discussion of the readings, and to explore using multi-media and the World Wide Web for the course.

Each student is expected to prepare and share with classmates their on-going, on-line journal that is for class use only -- or for public viewing -- depending on the individual's choice. The on-line journals record the students' observations of gender differences during the course of the quarter, and reactions to topics or problems discussed in class, the readings, others' on-line journals, etc. Students taking the course for 5 credits will submit an additional small project. This may be: (1) an on-line squib (circa 3-5 double-spaced pages) based on a topic or issue raised in class, the readings, or their own/others' on-line journal; (2) a recording (audio or video) of a short conversation (or segment of a tv/radio program) and analysis of the data; or (3) a small corpus or survey, and analysis of the findings. Choices (2) and (3) may be submitted in hardcopy or on-line (circa 3-5 pages double-spaced). Other topics may be proposed for instructor's approval.

	3 Credits:				5 Credits:
	Class participation/discussion	40%			Class participation/discussion	30%
	On-line journal	60%			On-line journal	35%
	------				On-line squib or other project	35%
	100%				------
					100%

SCHEDULE

Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1998.

"Gender differences in the Chinese language: a preliminary report." Proceedings of the Ninth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-9). 2 volumes, edited by by Hua Lin. Los Angeles: GSIL Publications, University of California. Volume 2, pages 35-52. (GB-encoded; CPinyin fonts needed; MS Word 6/7 for Windows version is available from my Publications Page.)

Chao, Fang-yi. 1995.

"On the gender-marked pronoun renjia in Chinese." Ohio State University manuscript.

Fan, Carol C. 1996.

"Language, gender and Chinese culture." International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 10.1:95-114.

Farris, Catherine S. 1995.

"A semeiotic analysis of sajiao as a gender marked communication style in Chinese." In: Unbound Taiwan: Closeups from a Distance, edited by Marshall Johnson and Fred Y.L. Chiu. (Select Papers Volume No. 8.) Chicago: Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. Pp.1-29.

Farris, Catherine S. 1997.

"Silence and speaking: preschool girls in Taiwan discursively produce Chinese gendered subjectivities." Paper presented at the 1997 meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.

Hong, Wei. 1997.

"Gender differences in Chinese request patterns." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 25.2:193-210.

Hong [-Fincher], Beverly. 1987.

"Indications of the changing status of women in Modern Standard Chinese terms of address." In: A World of Language: Papers Presented to Professor S.A. Wurm on his 65th Birthday, edited by Donald C. Laycock and Werner Winter. (Pacific Linguistics C-100). Pp.265-273.

Hong [-Fincher], Beverly. 1992.

"Mrs., Miss and Madam: how to address Chinese women in polite circles." In: The Language Game: Papers in Memory of Donald C. Laycock, edited by Tom Dutton, Malcom Ross and Darrell Tryon. (Pacific Linguistics C-110). Pp.179-185.

Hu, Mingyang. 1991a.

"Feminine accent in the Beijing vernacular: a sociolinguistic investigation." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association XXVI.1:49-54. (HTML version from the Chinese Linguistics website.) (For a slightly different, longer Chinese version, see Hu 1991b.)

Hu Mingyang (胡明揚). 1991b.

"Beijinghua 'nü guoyin'" (北京話 '女國音') (Feminine accent in the Beijing vernacular). In: Yuyanxue Lunwen Xuan (語言學論文選) (Selected Writings in Linguistics). Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe. Pp. 230-243.

Hu, Mingyang (胡明揚). 1991c.

"Beijinghua shengmu W de yinzhi" (北京話聲母 W 的音值) (Phonetic value of W initial in Beijing speech). In: Yuyanxue Lunwen Xuan (語言學論文選) (Selected Writings in Linguistics). Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin Daxue Chubanshe. Pp. 244-245. (GB-encoded HTML file, based on Wenze Hu's original MS Word 6 DOC file in the Chinese Linguistics website.)

Kuo, Sai-hua (郭賽華). 1997.

"It's really trouble to be a woman!: How young Chinese women talk about their predicaments." Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Ottawa, Canada, 16-20 May 1997.
MS Word 6 DOC file.

Robinson, Jean C. 1992.

East Asian women and the paradoxes of development: a retrospective on the 1980's." In: Understanding Women: The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Perspectives (= Papers in Comparative Studies 7, The Ohio State University). Edited by Marilyn Robinson Waldman, Artemis Leontis, and Muge Galin. Pp.223-249.

Shen, Haibing. 1995.

"An analysis of niang niang qiang." Ohio State University manuscript.

Shen, Haibing. 1997.

Gender and Conversational Interaction in Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-Based Study of Radio Talk Shows. M.A. thesis, Ohio State University.
MS Word 6 DOC files. GB-encoded; CPinyin and SIL's IPA fonts needed. (Info and downloading of fonts at my Publications Page):
[ Chapter 0 -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Bibliography ]

Shen, Jiong (沈炯). 1987.

"Beijinghua hekouhu ling shengmude yuyin fenqi" (北京話合口呼零聲母的語音分歧) (Phonetic differences of zero initial before finals beginning with u in the Beijing dialect.) Zhongguo Yuwen 5.352-362.

Shih, Yu-huei (施玉惠). 1984.

"Cong shehui yuyanxue guandian tantao Zhongwen nannyu liangxing yuyande chayi" (從社會語言學觀點探討中文男女兩性語言的差異) (A sociolinguistic study of male-female differences in Chinese) Jiaoxue yu Yanjiu 6:207-229. (College of Arts: National Taiwan Normal University.)

Ye, Lei. 1995.

"Complimenting in Mandarin Chinese." In: Pragmatics of Chinese as Native and Target Language, edited by Gabriele Kasper. Honlulu: U. of Hawaii Press. Pp. 207-302.

This section has been moved to my Chinese Language and Gender On-line Bibliography (1/8/98).

Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks (Homepage with Table of Contents to 4 satellite pages and their contents)

ChinaLinks1: General Resources for Chinese Studies: search engines, publishers, etc.

ChinaLinks2: Chinese Language Software & AV Programs: downloadable CJK fonts and decoders, downloadable RealPlayer, etc.

ChinaLinks3: Chinese Language and Linguistics: Chinese linguistic associations, conferences, etc.

ChinaLinks4: General Linguistics & Internet Resources: web-authoring guides and tutorials, web tools, internet resources, linguistic software, etc.

COSWL Collection of Language and Gender Syllabi (1993) (back online, Dec/98)

Compiled by Elizabeth Hume (Ohio State U.) and Bonnie McElhinny (Stanford U.) for the Language and Gender Syllabus Project, Linguistic Society of America's Council on the Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL).

Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses (added 12/28/98)

Over 500 syllabi subcategorized by discipline, compiled and maintained by Joan Korenman (U. of Maryland, Baltimore County). See also her Internet Resources on Women: Updates

OSU Libraries (Homepage):

Chinese Collection (Eng./Big5)

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) [WWW (OSU Columbus Only)]

Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK).

Library catalogs, research databases (incl. Diss. Abstracts, ERIC, OCLC-FirstSearch, WorldCat), e-texts, etc.

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LINGUISTICS CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

April 24-26, 1998.

Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley, CA. Organized by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Berkeley Women and Language Group (BWLG). Invited speakers are: Deborah Cameron, Janice Gould, Jeri Jaeger, Bea Medicine, Leslie Milroy, Patricia Nichols, Suzanne Romaine, and Ana Celia Zentella, plus Ursula K. Leguin (author). Proceedings are published by the BWLG.

April 24-26, 1998.

Sixth Annual Meeting of the Symposium About Language and Society - Austin (SALSA), University of Texas at Austin. Proceedings are published as a special edition of the Texas Linguistic Forum. Abstract deadline: January 16, 1998.

June 26 to 28, 1998.

Seventh Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-7)/Tenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-10). Organized by Prof. Chaofen Sun and hosted by Stanford University. Abstract deadline: December 31, 1997. (For those planning ahead, the 1999 IACL-8 meeting will be hosted by the University of Melbourne, Australia, and will be organized by Prof. David Holm.)

July 11, 1998.

Gender and Language: Future Directions. One-day workshop as part of the Australian Linguistics Institute (ALI '98), July 6-16, 1998. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Convenors: Janet Holmes, Anne Pauwels and Jennifer Coates. "This workshop will allow a range of women and men working at the forefront of current gender research to contribute their views about the directions they see the field developing in over the next ten years specifically in relation to theoretical models and methdological frameworks." Abstract (100 words max.) from ALI participants -- deadline: February 10, 1998 -- to Janet Holmes <janet.holmes@vuw.ac.nz> and Anne Pauwels <apauwels@metz.une.edu.au>.

July 14-16, 1998.

The Sixth International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL VI). Sponsored by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. Nankang, Taipei 115, R.O.C. (Professor C.-C. Jane Tang, Secretary of Organizing Committee.) E-mail: Jane Tang <iscll@gate.sinica.edu.tw>. Tel: +886-2-652-3127. Fax: +886-2-786-8834. Abstract deadline: December 31, 1997.)

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Contents of this online course page have benefited from tips, resources, and other help over the years from students, friends and colleague. My thanks go to Di Bai, Fang-yi Chao, Qi Gong, Cat Farris, Pascale Fung, Beverly Hong, Wenze Hu, Sai-hua Kuo, Hua Lin, Huey Lin, Rachel Lung, Shu-hui Peng, Haibing Shen, Liz Strand, Shou-hsin Teng, Jim Tai, Sam Wang, and anyone else I may have inadvertently omitted.