Papers by Jane Sunderland
The how and why of co-supervision of PhD students:reported understandings of supervisors and supervisees
Supervising research students is a complex endeavor, especially when carrying joint supervision. ... more Supervising research students is a complex endeavor, especially when carrying joint supervision. This presentation reports supervisors’ and PhD scholars’ perceptions on joint supervision in a UK university department. The implications of the findings for writing their PHD thesis and obtaining their degree are also discussed.
Routledge eBooks, May 30, 2006
Canine Agency and Its Mitigation in the Characterization of Dogs in the Novels by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
Bronte Studies, Jun 13, 2023
Queering the English Language Classroom: A Practical Guide for Teachers
Elt Journal, 2021
Gender (Representation) in Foreign Language Textbooks: Avoiding Pitfalls and Moving On
Gender Representation in Learning Materials, 2015
Children's Literacy Practices and Preferences
Over the past few decades there have been intense debates in education surrounding children’s lit... more Over the past few decades there have been intense debates in education surrounding children’s literacy achievement and ways to promote reading, particularly that of boys. The Harry Potter book series has been received enthusiastically by very many children, boys and girls alike, but has also been constructed in popular and media discourses as a children’s, particularly a boys’, literacy saviour. Children’s Literacy Practices and Preferences: Harry Potter and Beyond provides empirical evidence of young people’s reported literacy practices and views on reading, and of how they see how the Harry Potter series as having impacted their own literacy. The volume explores and debunks some of the myths surrounding Harry Potter and literacy, and contextualizes these within children’s wider reading.
Gender and language in African contexts: Working bibliography
Gender and Language, 2012
The editors of this Special Issue have compiled this working bibliography in an eff ort to addres... more The editors of this Special Issue have compiled this working bibliography in an eff ort to address the lack of such documents (but see Dubbeld et al. (2002), below, on work from South Africa) for colleagues who carry out research in this area. It includes work which focuses on gender and/or sexuality and Africa (not only sub-Saharan Africa) with a linguistic, discourse or literacy focus (but excludes the large body of work on literature). It includes publications of all kinds, including that on websites, and also unpublished PhD theses. It does not include MA theses. We do not claim that it is comprehensive, rather we view it as a working document which will be expanded by further relevant work. We welcome suggestions for further items to include (please send to j.sunderland@lancaster.ac.uk). Updated versions of this document will appear on the following website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/doc_library/linguistics/sunderland/Bib-Gender-and-Language-in-African-Contexts.pdf
Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 2002
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture The series includes contributions that inve... more Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture The series includes contributions that investigate political, social and cultural processes from a linguistic/discourse-analytic point of view. The aim is to publish monographs and edited volumes which combine language-...
Language, gender and childrens fiction/ Sunderland
259 p. ; 25 cm
Foreign Language Textbooks and Degrees of Heteronormativity: Representation and Consumption
Linguistic Perspectives on Sexuality in Education
Heteronormativity in EFL textbooks and in two genres of children’s literature (Harry Potter and same-sex parent family picture books)
This paper examines representations of heteronormativity (and its influence) across several kinds... more This paper examines representations of heteronormativity (and its influence) across several kinds of literature aimed at a child (and sometimes adult) audience, and does so by examining relationships between language and sexuality. The study firstly focuses on the study of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, giving an overview of research from the literature. The authors look at heteronormativity in these overtly pedagogical texts and consider some implications for textbook writers and analysts when challenging predominantly heteronormative representations of sexuality in these texts. The authors then consider representations of sexuality in children's fiction. The prevalence of heteronormativity in the Harry Potter series is considered in relation to broad aspects of identity (gender, sexuality, class). Heteronormativity vis a vis homonormativity is then discussed in relation to the analysis of a large collection of picturebooks featuring same-sex parents, the result...
Language, gender and ageism in Setswana
Review of Baxter, J. Positioning Gender in Discourse: a Feminist Methodology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Fatherhood Discourses in Parenting Magazines
Gendered Discourses, 2004
In this chapter and the next I examine some gendered discourses surrounding fatherhood in written... more In this chapter and the next I examine some gendered discourses surrounding fatherhood in written texts. We are thus not looking at actual fatherhood practices, but rather at the discourses that seem to be drawn on in their textual representation. Like motherhood, fatherhood can be viewed as both experience and institution (Rich, 1976). As institution, it is an interesting epistemological site since the social practices that together and variously constitute fatherhood (and motherhood) are, in many cultural contexts, in a state of flux, a flux corresponding to that in gender relations more widely.
Looking at picturebook covers multimodally: the case of two-Mum and two-Dad picturebooks
Visual Communication, 2013
Picturebooks featuring same-sex parents, although growing in number, remain underexplored. In thi... more 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?’ This study is timely in that the image–text relationship is a contested one. Drawing on the notions of modal affordance and epistemological commitment and the Hallidayan functional grammar category of enhancement, the authors use Theo van Leeuwen’s (2008, 1996) Social Actors frameworks, in particular the Visual Representation frameworks, to show that image and text (the title) are not commensurate in the meanings they communicate. Further, rather than one mode being merely supportive of the other, image and text, here, are ‘mutually enhancing’...
Book Review: Language and Gender
Discourse & Society, 2005
Page 1. http://das.sagepub.com/ Discourse & Society http://das.sagepub.com/content/16... more Page 1. http://das.sagepub.com/ Discourse & Society http://das.sagepub.com/content/16/1/134 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/095792650501600107 2005 16: 134 Discourse Society Julio C. Gimenez Book Review: Language and Gender ...
The how and why of co-supervision of PhD students:reported understandings of supervisors and supervisees
Supervising research students is a complex endeavor, especially when carrying joint supervision. ... more Supervising research students is a complex endeavor, especially when carrying joint supervision. This presentation reports supervisors’ and PhD scholars’ perceptions on joint supervision in a UK university department. The implications of the findings for writing their PHD thesis and obtaining their degree are also discussed.
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