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Context Counts: Papers on Language, Gender, and Power - Softcover

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach

 
9780195119893: Context Counts: Papers on Language, Gender, and Power

Synopsis

This book collects the groundbreaking work of linguist Robin Tolmach Lakoff in a single volume, with introductions to essays by prominent linguists that provide commentary on the profound influence of Lakoff's work.

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About the Author

Robin Lakoff is is a professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her 1975 book Language and Woman's Place is often credited with establishing language and gender as an object of study in linguistics and other disciplines.

Laurel Sutton is a linguist and branding expert living in the San Francisco Bay Area. After earning her Master's in Linguistics from UC Berkeley, she went on to co-found Catchword, a top-tier naming company. Her linguistic expertise is in phonetics and sociolinguistics.

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