| 1. | Class Guidance |
| 2. | Unit 1: Projections/ The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (3-7) |
| 3. | Unit 1: Projections/ Anthropomorphism(7-13) |
| 4. | Unit 1: Mother Nature, Father Time; Unit 2: Making up gender/ Bodies of description; (13-17) |
| 5. | Unit 2: Making up gender/ Socialisation (17-23) |
| 6. | Unit 2: Making up gender/ Fictional worlds; Unit 3: All in the mind?/ The language of the mind (23-25) |
| 7. | Unit 3: All in the mind?/ Cognition and Language; Why do we categorise?; Keeping it simple; Constructing categories (25-30) |
| 8. | Unit 3: All in the mind?/ The power of cognitive models; Typicality; From prototypical to stereotypical (31-34) |
| 9. | Unit 3: All in the mind?/ Mark my words; Cognition and reference; Gender, generics and grammatical rules (34-37) |
| 10. | Unit 3: All in the mind?/ Generics and cognition; Unit 4: Political correctness/ Where did the term 'political correctness' come from? (37-40) |
| 11. | Unit 4: Political correctness/ Linguistic neutrality?; Reforming language; The liberal tradition (41-44) |
| 12. | Unit 4: Political correctness/ The language is under attack!; The thought police are coming; Just what are you supposed to call them these days? (44-47) |
| 13. | Unit 5: Gender and speech styles/ Aims of this unit; Folklinguistics (48-50) |
| 14. | Unit 5: Gender and speech styles/ A history of research on gender and speech styles--The linguistic relativity criticism; The language context criticism; The cultural diversity criticism-- (51-55) |
| 15. | Unit 5: Gender and speech styles/ From deficit to dominance: men behaving badly; From dominance to difference (55-59) |
| 16. | Unit 5: Gender and speech styles/ After difference (59-61)&review |