Context counts: papers on language, gender, and power

by Lakoff, Robin Tolmach

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Full title :Context counts : papers on language, gender, and power / Robin Talmoch Lakoff ; edited by Laurel A. Sutton.

Summary

Context Counts assembles, for the first time, the work of pre-eminent linguist Robin Tolmach Lakoff. A career that spans some forty years, Lakoff remains one of the most influential linguists of the 20th-century. The early papers show the genesis of Lakoff's inquiry into the relationship of language and social power, ideas later codified in the groundbreaking Language and Woman's Place and Talking Power. The late papers reflect her continued exposition of power dynamics beyond gender that are established and represented in language. This volume offers a retrospective analysis of Lakoff's work, with each paper preceded by an introduction from a prominent linguist in the field, including both contemporaries and students of Lakoff's work, and further, Lakoff's own conversation with these responses. This engaging and, at times, moving reevaluation pays homage to Lakoff's far-reaching influence upon linguistics, while also serving as an unusual form of autobiography revealing the decades' long evolution of a scholarly career. -- Amazon.com.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 408 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780195119893, 0195119894, 9780195119886, 0195119886
oclc:ocn957339356
LC Classification:P120.S48
Dewey Decimal:306.44

Subjects

Feminism Feminism -- History -- 20th century Féminisme -- Histoire -- 20e siècle History Langage et sexualité -- Histoire -- 20e… Language and sex Language and sex -- History -- 20th cen… Soziolinguistik