Feminism and Linguistic Theory
By Deborah Cameron
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Feminism, as a movement for social change, has always recognised the significance of language in both theory and practice. In the new feminist scholarship of the past two decades, theories about language have played an important part in attempts to understand and transform women’s lives.
Feminism and Linguistic Theory is a critical but comprehensive and accessible introduction to recent work in this area. It ranges over a wide and varied field: not only does it review work in linguistics and other mainstream disciplines, but the alternative currents of radical feminist, Lacanian and postmodernist linguistic thought are given detailed consideration.
During the 1980s, feminist theory and scholarship moved in new directions, becoming much more concerned with questions of diversity among women, with the multiple nature of difference and the complexity of power. This revised edition has been updated throughout to take account of new developments and their implications for feminist linguistics.
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