Jane Sunderland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Sunderland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Sunderland |
| SIGNATURE | SUNDERLAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8618-6093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Gender and Sexual Diversity in Language Education
Gender and sexual diversity in language education in general and in educational media in particular continues to be a vibrant field of research. Studies thus far have focused on gender representations in and around educational media, and, more recently, on their intersections with parameters such as sexuality, ethnicity, and class. This special issue of Gender and Language links this research field with theoretically and methodologically innovati…
Gender, language and prejudice
While linguistic prejudice is commonly understood to concern individuals or social groups because of the way they speak, we can also see it as damaging language used about individuals or social groups. In this article, I start by looking at the traditional sociolinguistic understanding of linguistic prejudice, then go on to look rather widely at various forms of prejudicial/sexist language about women . In doing so, I identify various lexical asy…
Inclusion and exclusion in foreign language education
The foreign language classroom is in many ways feminine and heteronormative. But if male students feel excluded, late 20th century studies showed mixed‐sex classroom interaction to be dominated by boys, and women's and girls’ representation in textbooks to be lacking. Relatedly, students who do not identify as heterosexual can be ‘othered’, and are absent from textbooks. I provide brief, illustrative accounts of two empirical studies—of gender an…
Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa
Looking at picturebook covers multimodally
Picturebooks featuring same-sex parents, although growing in number, remain underexplored. In this article, the authors look at the covers of four such picturebooks, in particular at the representation of the co-parents and the multimodal workings of image and text. They ask: ‘How can the multimodal relationship between image and written text (the title) on the covers of picturebooks featuring same-sex parents best be described and explained?’ Th…
Gender, sexuality and meaning
SALLY MCCONNELL-GINET, 2011 (Foreword Mary Bucholtz), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 297 pp, ISBN 978-0195187816, £19.99 (paperback) To read Gender, sexuality and meaning, a 12-chapter collection
Brown Sugar’
Advertisements are a key site for gender and language study, many ads constructing relationships between femininity and consumption, and gender relations of a (hetero) sexual nature. In this paper I look in a qualitative way at how two ads in the form of ‘tiny texts’ indirectly index gender inflected with both ethnicity and sexuality. Printed on sugar tubes found in a café in modern urban Botswana, one of these ads shows a black woman, the other …
Gender and language in sub-Saharan African contexts
In this paper, we examine a range of issues associated with the study of gender and language in sub-Saharan African contexts. These include whether (and in what sense) such contexts may constitute a ‘special case’, the relevance of feminism, and what might be encompassed by ‘context’, ‘African contexts’ and ‘African topics’ – and a substantial amount of what we write is relevant to Applied Linguistics in Africa more broadly (see Makoni and Meinho…
Contradictions in Gendered Discourses
In this largely theoretical paper, I look at contradictions as these may be experienced by feminist readers of sexist jokes, and at ways active readers may deal with these. Drawing on the notions of interpellation (e.g. Althusser, 1998) and focalisation (Genette, 1972; Montgomery, 2000), I start with ways of reading the text in question – a set of sexist jokes. Then, drawing on the rather diverse theoretical notions of reader response(s), discour…
Parenting’ or ‘mothering’? The case of modern childcare magazines
Many magazines devoted to the topic of the care of babies and young children now have titles which include some variation of parent rather than of mother (e.g. Parent and Child rather than Mother and Baby). This corresponds to evident new directions in social practices, and suggests a desire of the publishers to appeal to female and male readers. Whether both mothers and fathers are addressed and represented in the magazines makes these magazines…
Gendered Discourses
This advanced textbook critically reviews a range of theoretical and empirical work on gendered discourses, and explores how gendered discourses can be identified, described and named. It also examine
A Comparative Review of Four Books on Language and Gender
TESOL Quarterly welcomes evaluative reviews of publications relevant to TESOL professionals. Gender in the Language Classroom. Monika Chavez Language and Gender. Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis. Lita Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland (Eds.) Communicating Gender. Suzanne Romaine
I've Always Loved Women
Gender identity and discourse analysis
New Communication Practices, Identity and the Psychological Gap
Distance or open learning in higher education is now closely associated with computer-mediated communication (CMC). Distance education, however, is not only a question of new technology, but of pedagogy and learning, and of the implications of new technology for these. For the doctoral distance student, a further issue may be one of identity - as a student registered with one institution, while (often) working as a professional at another. Taking…
Baby Entertainer, Bumbling Assistant and Line Manager
In this paper I report on an investigation of discoursal asymmetry in parentcraft texts, in terms of the ways in which the father is represented and backgrounded. In particular, I suggest that it is possible to see one dominant, overarching discourse: `Part-time father/mother as main parent'. This dominant discourse can be seen as being `shored up' (as well as, to an extent, challenged) by other, usually complementary, discourses: `father as baby…
Issues of language and gender in second and foreign language education
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Discourse Roles, Gender and Language Textbook Dialogues
Much work has been done on gender stereotyping in textbooks for foreign language teaching. However, little has focused on the language of dialogues, which are a characteristic feature of language textbooks. In the light of this gap, this article describes the author's own study analysing discourse roles in dialogues in three recent text books for the teaching of English as a foreign language. The results showed an encouraging level of gender fair…
Exploring Gender
The value of project work in inset
The decline of man
Parenting’ or ‘mothering’? The case of modern childcare magazines
Many magazines devoted to the topic of the care of babies and young children now have titles which include some variation of parent rather than of mother (e.g. Parent and Child rather than Mother and Baby). This corresponds to evident new directions in social practices, and suggests a desire of the publishers to appeal to female and male readers. Whether both mothers and fathers are addressed and represented in the magazines makes these magazines…
Baby Entertainer, Bumbling Assistant and Line Manager
In this paper I report on an investigation of discoursal asymmetry in parentcraft texts, in terms of the ways in which the father is represented and backgrounded. In particular, I suggest that it is possible to see one dominant, overarching discourse: `Part-time father/mother as main parent'. This dominant discourse can be seen as being `shored up' (as well as, to an extent, challenged) by other, usually complementary, discourses: `father as baby…
Discourse Roles, Gender and Language Textbook Dialogues
Much work has been done on gender stereotyping in textbooks for foreign language teaching. However, little has focused on the language of dialogues, which are a characteristic feature of language textbooks. In the light of this gap, this article describes the author's own study analysing discourse roles in dialogues in three recent text books for the teaching of English as a foreign language. The results showed an encouraging level of gender fair…
Issues of language and gender in second and foreign language education
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Looking at picturebook covers multimodally
Picturebooks featuring same-sex parents, although growing in number, remain underexplored. In this article, the authors look at the covers of four such picturebooks, in particular at the representation of the co-parents and the multimodal workings of image and text. They ask: ‘How can the multimodal relationship between image and written text (the title) on the covers of picturebooks featuring same-sex parents best be described and explained?’ Th…
The decline of man
Gender and language in sub-Saharan African contexts
In this paper, we examine a range of issues associated with the study of gender and language in sub-Saharan African contexts. These include whether (and in what sense) such contexts may constitute a ‘special case’, the relevance of feminism, and what might be encompassed by ‘context’, ‘African contexts’ and ‘African topics’ – and a substantial amount of what we write is relevant to Applied Linguistics in Africa more broadly (see Makoni and Meinho…
Inclusion and exclusion in foreign language education
The foreign language classroom is in many ways feminine and heteronormative. But if male students feel excluded, late 20th century studies showed mixed‐sex classroom interaction to be dominated by boys, and women's and girls’ representation in textbooks to be lacking. Relatedly, students who do not identify as heterosexual can be ‘othered’, and are absent from textbooks. I provide brief, illustrative accounts of two empirical studies—of gender an…
Brown Sugar’
Advertisements are a key site for gender and language study, many ads constructing relationships between femininity and consumption, and gender relations of a (hetero) sexual nature. In this paper I look in a qualitative way at how two ads in the form of ‘tiny texts’ indirectly index gender inflected with both ethnicity and sexuality. Printed on sugar tubes found in a café in modern urban Botswana, one of these ads shows a black woman, the other …
The value of project work in inset
The decline of man
Exploring Gender
Discourse Roles, Gender and Language Textbook Dialogues
Much work has been done on gender stereotyping in textbooks for foreign language teaching. However, little has focused on the language of dialogues, which are a characteristic feature of language textbooks. In the light of this gap, this article describes the author's own study analysing discourse roles in dialogues in three recent text books for the teaching of English as a foreign language. The results showed an encouraging level of gender fair…
Baby Entertainer, Bumbling Assistant and Line Manager
In this paper I report on an investigation of discoursal asymmetry in parentcraft texts, in terms of the ways in which the father is represented and backgrounded. In particular, I suggest that it is possible to see one dominant, overarching discourse: `Part-time father/mother as main parent'. This dominant discourse can be seen as being `shored up' (as well as, to an extent, challenged) by other, usually complementary, discourses: `father as baby…
Issues of language and gender in second and foreign language education
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Gender identity and discourse analysis
New Communication Practices, Identity and the Psychological Gap
Distance or open learning in higher education is now closely associated with computer-mediated communication (CMC). Distance education, however, is not only a question of new technology, but of pedagogy and learning, and of the implications of new technology for these. For the doctoral distance student, a further issue may be one of identity - as a student registered with one institution, while (often) working as a professional at another. Taking…
I've Always Loved Women
Gendered Discourses
This advanced textbook critically reviews a range of theoretical and empirical work on gendered discourses, and explores how gendered discourses can be identified, described and named. It also examine
A Comparative Review of Four Books on Language and Gender
TESOL Quarterly welcomes evaluative reviews of publications relevant to TESOL professionals. Gender in the Language Classroom. Monika Chavez Language and Gender. Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis. Lita Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland (Eds.) Communicating Gender. Suzanne Romaine
Parenting’ or ‘mothering’? The case of modern childcare magazines
Many magazines devoted to the topic of the care of babies and young children now have titles which include some variation of parent rather than of mother (e.g. Parent and Child rather than Mother and Baby). This corresponds to evident new directions in social practices, and suggests a desire of the publishers to appeal to female and male readers. Whether both mothers and fathers are addressed and represented in the magazines makes these magazines…
Contradictions in Gendered Discourses
In this largely theoretical paper, I look at contradictions as these may be experienced by feminist readers of sexist jokes, and at ways active readers may deal with these. Drawing on the notions of interpellation (e.g. Althusser, 1998) and focalisation (Genette, 1972; Montgomery, 2000), I start with ways of reading the text in question – a set of sexist jokes. Then, drawing on the rather diverse theoretical notions of reader response(s), discour…
Brown Sugar’
Advertisements are a key site for gender and language study, many ads constructing relationships between femininity and consumption, and gender relations of a (hetero) sexual nature. In this paper I look in a qualitative way at how two ads in the form of ‘tiny texts’ indirectly index gender inflected with both ethnicity and sexuality. Printed on sugar tubes found in a café in modern urban Botswana, one of these ads shows a black woman, the other …
Gender and language in sub-Saharan African contexts
In this paper, we examine a range of issues associated with the study of gender and language in sub-Saharan African contexts. These include whether (and in what sense) such contexts may constitute a ‘special case’, the relevance of feminism, and what might be encompassed by ‘context’, ‘African contexts’ and ‘African topics’ – and a substantial amount of what we write is relevant to Applied Linguistics in Africa more broadly (see Makoni and Meinho…
Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa
Looking at picturebook covers multimodally
Picturebooks featuring same-sex parents, although growing in number, remain underexplored. In this article, the authors look at the covers of four such picturebooks, in particular at the representation of the co-parents and the multimodal workings of image and text. They ask: ‘How can the multimodal relationship between image and written text (the title) on the covers of picturebooks featuring same-sex parents best be described and explained?’ Th…
Gender, sexuality and meaning
SALLY MCCONNELL-GINET, 2011 (Foreword Mary Bucholtz), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 297 pp, ISBN 978-0195187816, £19.99 (paperback) To read Gender, sexuality and meaning, a 12-chapter collection
Inclusion and exclusion in foreign language education
The foreign language classroom is in many ways feminine and heteronormative. But if male students feel excluded, late 20th century studies showed mixed‐sex classroom interaction to be dominated by boys, and women's and girls’ representation in textbooks to be lacking. Relatedly, students who do not identify as heterosexual can be ‘othered’, and are absent from textbooks. I provide brief, illustrative accounts of two empirical studies—of gender an…
Gender, language and prejudice
While linguistic prejudice is commonly understood to concern individuals or social groups because of the way they speak, we can also see it as damaging language used about individuals or social groups. In this article, I start by looking at the traditional sociolinguistic understanding of linguistic prejudice, then go on to look rather widely at various forms of prejudicial/sexist language about women . In doing so, I identify various lexical asy…
Gender and Sexual Diversity in Language Education
Gender and sexual diversity in language education in general and in educational media in particular continues to be a vibrant field of research. Studies thus far have focused on gender representations in and around educational media, and, more recently, on their intersections with parameters such as sexuality, ethnicity, and class. This special issue of Gender and Language links this research field with theoretically and methodologically innovati…
Sociology (18 works) · Gender Studies in Language (17 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works)