Context Counts: Papers on Language, Gender, and Power

by Robin Tolmach Lakoff

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195119894
• ISBN13: 9780195119893
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"