چکیده (انگلیسی):

In this paper; culture, gender, language and literature relationship is discussed from the sociolinguistics
perspective. This complex relationship is analysed in relation with cognitive categories, Whorfian Hypothesis,
grammatical markers, natural, grammatical and social gender and the notion of gendered language. Social
gender is also examined within a literary lens through female issues raised by 4th year ELT students in
analysing literary texts in ‘Selections from Western Literature’ as an elective course at an ELT department at a
Turkish University. Five (5) thematic categories are gathered through inductive analysis of the presentation
data as female issues which are namely; obedient and modest; beautiful, seductive or destructive;
underappreciated and emotionally trapped woman; woman as an object of love and female writer expressing
her love. Female issues are examined in relationship with social gender and drawing from the thematic
categories; suggestions and implications regarding how to integrate literature, culture and gender relationship
as a tool of teaching English in the ELT curriculum are discussed