Name Deborah Cameron | Role Linguist | |
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Born 10 November 1958 (age 66) ( 1958-11-10 ) Major works The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages? Books The Myth of Mars and Venus, Verbal hygiene, Language and Sexuality, Working with spoken di, Feminism and linguistic t Similar People Don Kulick, Robin Lakoff, Janet Holmes, Deborah Tannen, Talbot J Taylor |
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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.
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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.
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