Masterclass – English Language | CHS @ NUS Open House 2022

Why Study Language, Gender and Sexuality? (2.30 - 3.15 pm) In this presentation, I will discuss why we need to study language, gender and sexuality by particularly focusing on feminist, queer, and trans perspectives in academic context by providing a reliable source for current discussions in the field. To do this, I plan to highlight research on the social analytics of gender in discourse domains that include institutions, media, politics and everyday interaction. Gender is a key element of social relationships that are often loosely linked to perceived differences between women and men. This presentation will explain that (1) gender relations are ideologically encoded in linguistic and other symbolic representations, normative concepts, institutions, social practices as well as social identities; and (2) gender is a primary arena for articulating power in complex interaction with other dimensions of social identity and difference, such as race, social class, age, ability, and sexuality. Speaker: Associate Professor Mie Hiramoto Assoc Prof Mie Hiramoto from the Department of English Language and Literature at NUS, earned her PhD in linguistics from the University of Hawaii (2006). Her research interests are sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, in particular, contact linguistics (e.g., Japanese spoken outside Japan and Singapore English) as well as language, gender, and sexuality (e.g., mediation and medialization; Asian masculinity). Some of her recent research papers appeared in World Englishes (2019), Language in Society (2019), Social Semiotics (2020), Language and Communication (2020)​, and Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (2020)​.