UTSA hosts lecture on language and gender
(Oct. 15, 2004)--Elizabeth Keating, author of "Power Sharing: Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in Pohnpei, Micronesia," will discuss language and gender in interaction at 2 p.m., Oct. 20 in Business Building Room 2.01.10 on the UTSA 1604 Campus.
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RSS FeedsKeating, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas - Austin, will focus on non-verbal communication in both the United States and Pohnpei, Micronesia. Pohnpei is an island in the western central Pacific Ocean.
Keating studied the island in an attempt to understand relationships between social hierarchies and language. She noted the way people communicate with each other also communicates each person's social status to observers.
The lecture is sponsored by the UTSA Women's Studies Institute and the Department of English, Classics and Philosophy.
For more information, contact the Women's Studies Institute at (210) 458-6277.