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 scholary career. 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. The late papers reflect her continued exposition of power dynamnics beyond gender that are established and represented in language. Lakoff argues that women’s subordinate position in society is manifested in and maintained by their tentative speech style. Language and social power, ideas later codified in the groundbreaking Language and Woman's Place and Talking Power. In Language and Woman’s Place (1973), Robin T. The early papers show the genesis of Lakoff's inquiry into the relationship of He has focused his language and gender research on the language used in an all-male American. A career that spans some forty years, Lakoff remains one of the most influential linguists of the 20th-century. Text and Commentaries Robin Tolmach Lakoff Mary Bucholtz. Context Counts assembles, for the first time, the work of pre-eminent linguist Robin Tolmach Lakoff. The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender.
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