Jane Sunderland (born 1952) is a

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linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

and

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. She is currently an Honorary Reader in Gender and Discourse at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of

Lancaster University Lancaster University (legally The University of Lancaster) is a public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several pla ...

, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on

language and gender Research into the many possible relationships, intersections and tensions between language and gender is diverse. It crosses disciplinary boundaries, and, as a bare minimum, could be said to encompass work notionally housed within applied lingui ...

, Identity and language learning and

critical discourse analysis Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice. CDA combines critique of discourse and explanation of how it figures within and contributes to the exi ...

Career

Between 1988 and 1991 Sunderland was a tutor at the Institute for English Language Education, Lancaster University. Between 2000 and 2012 Sunderland was the Director of Studies of the PhD in

Applied Linguistics Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication rese ...

by Thesis and Coursework at Lancaster University. On 27 November 2006, Sunderland's analysis on whether women talk more than men appeared on

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. Sunderland's analysis found that there were no substantial differences between the amount of words that both genders used during one day. The analysis questioned the best-selling book, The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine. Between 2006 and 2008 she was the President of the

International Gender and Language Association The International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), is an international interdisciplinary academic organization that promotes research on language, gender, and Human sexuality, sexuality. Claire Maree is its current president. History Th ...

(IGALA). In 2007 Sunderland received the National Teaching Fellow award for her work in initiating developing and running the PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework and New Route PhD in Applied Linguistics programmes.

Research

Sunderland's research focused on

and

. More specifically, her research concentrates on language and gender in African contexts; the representation of gender and sexuality in children's picture books and in language textbooks; gender and sexuality in the language classroom.

Awards

*2007:

National Teaching Fellowship The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) is an award for excellence in teaching in higher education for teaching fellows in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The scheme was first administered by the Higher Education Academy, wh ...

Publications

Sunderland has published in several major journals such as Visual Communication,

Language and Literature ''Language and Literature'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles in the field of stylistics. The journal's editor is Dan McIntyre (University of Huddersfield). It has been published since 1992, first by Longman and then by ...

Journal of Pragmatics The ''Journal of Pragmatics'' is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the linguistic subfield of pragmatics. It was established in 1977 by Jacob L. Mey (at that time Odense University) and Hartmut Haberland (Roskilde University). T ...

Gender and Education Sex differences in education are a type of sex discrimination in the education system affecting both men and women during and after their educational experiences.Pearson, Jennifer. "Gender, Education and." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology ...

, ELT Journal,

System A system is a group of Interaction, interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment (systems), environment, is described by its boundaries, ...

, Language Teaching Research,

Discourse and Society ''Discourse & Society'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of discourse analysis. It was established in 1990 by Teun A. van Dijk (Pompeu Fabra University), who has been the editor-in-chief ever since. Abstracting ...

Language Teaching Language education – the process and practice of teaching a second or foreign language – is primarily a branch of applied linguistics, but can be an interdisciplinary field. There are four main learning categories for language education: ...

, Language and Education, Linguistics and Education and Gender and Language.

Bibliography

Books

*Sunderland, J. (2004). Gendered discourses. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. do

*Sunderland, J. (2006). Gender and language: an advanced resource book. London: Routledge. *Sunderland, J. (2010). Language, gender and children's fiction. London: Continuum.

Articles

*Sunderland, J. (1991). The decline of man. ''

16'', 505–522. *Sunderland, J. (1992). Gender in the EFL classroom. '' ELT Journal 46''(1), 81–91. *Sunderland, J. (1998). Girls being quiet: A problem for foreign language classrooms? '' Language Teaching Research 2''(1), 48–62. *Sunderland, J. (2000). Baby entertainer, bumbling assistant and line manager: discourses of fatherhood in parentcraft texts. ''

11''(2), 249–274. *Sunderland, J. (2000). New understandings of gender and language classroom research: texts, teacher talk and student talk. '' Language Teaching Research 4''(2), 149–173. *Sunderland, J. (2000). State of the art review article: Gender, language and language education. ''

33''(4), 203–223. *Sunderland, J., & Mcglashan, M. (2012). The linguistic, visual and multimodal representation of two-Mum and two-Dad families in children's picturebooks. ''

, 21''(2), 189–210

*Sunderland, J. (2012). “Brown Sugar”: the textual construction of femininity in two “tiny texts”. ''

Gender and Language ''Gender and Language'' is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal for language-based research on gender and sexuality from feminist, queer, and trans perspectives. Gender and Language is currently one of the few academic journals to whic ...

, 6''(1), 105–129. *Sunderland, J., & Mcglashan, M. (2013). Looking at picturebook covers multimodally: the case of two-mum and two-dad picturebooks. ''Visual Communication, 12''(4), 473–496. do

Works

* The Lament of Dorothy Wordsworth (2017)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sunderland, Jane 1952 births Living people Applied linguists Women linguists Linguists from the United Kingdom Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University Alumni of Lancaster University