This course examines the relationship between gender as a social phenomenon and language, and investigates some of the theoretical frameworks through which it has been studied. Central to its focus is a comparative study of the ways in which men and women throughout the world use language in the development and the negotiation of their gendered identities in a range of contexts, as well as the processes through which children acquire gendered language identities. Students are required to record, transcribe and analyse local conversations as part of their Caribbean content. Linguistic Gender and the relevance of charges of sexism in a number of unrelated languages are also investigated.