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Name
  
Deborah Cameron


Role
  
Linguist

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Born
  
10 November 1958 (age 65) (
1958-11-10
)

Major works
  
The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?

Main interests
  
Sociolinguistics, Linguistic anthropology

Books
  
The Myth of Mars and Venus, Verbal hygiene, Language and Sexuality, Working with spoken di, Feminism and linguistic t

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Deborah Cameron (born 10 November 1958), is a feminist linguist, who currently holds the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, University of Oxford.

Contents

She is mainly interested in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. A large part of her academic research is focused on the relationship of language to gender and sexuality. Cameron wrote the book The Myth of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages??, published in 2007.

Career

Before going to Oxford, Cameron taught at the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, The College of William & Mary in Virginia, Strathclyde University in Glasgow and the Institute of Education in London.

References

Deborah Cameron (linguist) Wikipedia