Deborah Cameron (linguist) explained

Deborah Cameron
Birth Date:	1958 11, df=yes
Main Interests:	Sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology
Major Works:	The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?

Deborah Cameron (born 10 November 1958)^[1] is a British linguist and feminist who currently holds the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford University.^[2]

Cameron 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.^[3] She wrote the book The Myth of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?, which was published in 2007.^[4]

Career

Before her post at Oxford University, 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.

Selected bibliography

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Books

• Book: Cameron . Deborah . Frazer . Elizabeth . The lust to kill: a feminist investigation of sexual murder . New York University Press . New York . 1987 . 9780814714157 . registration .
• Book: Cameron . Deborah . Frazer . Elizabeth . Harvey . Penny Harvey . Penelope . Rampton . M.B.H. . Richardson . Kay . Researching language: issues of power and method . . London New York . 1992 . 9780415057226 . registration .
• Book: Cameron, Deborah . Verbal hygiene . . London New York . 1995 . 1st . 9780415103558 .
• Book: Cameron, Deborah . Verbal hygiene . . Classics in Linguistics . London New York . 2012 . Reprint . 9780415696005 .
• Book: Cameron, Deborah . Good to talk? Living and working in a communication culture . . London Thousand Oaks, California . 2000 . 9781412931557 .
• Book: Cameron, Deborah . Working with spoken discourse . . London Thousand Oaks, California . 2001 . 9780761957737 .
• Book: Cameron . Deborah . Block . David . Globalization and language teaching . . London New York . 2002 . 9780203193679 .
• Book: Cameron . Deborah . Markus . Thomas A. . The words between the spaces: buildings and language . . London New York . 2002 . 9780203360361 .
• Book: Cameron . Deborah . Kulick . Don . Don Kulick . Language and sexuality . . Cambridge . 2003 . 9780511791178 .
• Book: Cameron . Deborah . Kulick . Don . Don Kulick . The language and sexuality reader . . London New York . 2006 . 9780203013373 .
• Book: Cameron, Deborah . On language and sexual politics . . London New York . 2006 . 9780415373432 .
• Book: Cameron, Deborah . The myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages? . . Oxford New York . 2007 . 9780199214471 . The Myth of Mars and Venus .
• Book: Cameron . Deborah . Scanlon . Joan . The Trouble & Strife reader . . London New York . 2010 . 9781849660129 .
• Book: Cameron, Deborah . More heat than light?: Sex-difference science & the study of language . Ronsdale Press . Vancouver . 2012 . 9781553802211 .
• Book: Cameron . Deborah . Panović . Ivan . Working with written discourse . . London Thousand Oaks, California . 2014 . 9781446267226 .

Journal articles

• Cameron . Deborah . Ten years on: "Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence" . Women: A Cultural Review . 1 . 1 . 35–37 . 10.1080/09574049008578015 . July 1990 .

See also: Rich . Adrienne . Adrienne Rich . Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence . . 5 . 4 . 631–660 . Summer 1980 . 3173834 . 10.1086/493756 . 143604951 . and Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

• Cameron . Deborah . Sex/gender, language and the new biologism . . 31 . 2 . 173–192 . 10.1093/applin/amp022 . May 2010 .
• Cameron . Deborah . Evolution, science and the study of literature: A critical response . . 20 . 1 . 59–72 . 10.1177/0963947010391126 . February 2011 . 147650548 .
• Cameron . Deborah . The one, the many and the other: representing mono- and multilingualism in post-9/11 verbal hygiene . Critical Multilingualism Studies . 1 . 2 . 59–77 . 2013 .
• Cameron . Deborah . Holoshitz . Tamar . The linguistic representation of sexual violence in conflict settings . . 8 . 2 . 169–184 . 10.1558/genl.v8i2.169 . June 2014 .

Further reading

• Benwell . Bethan . Bethan Benwell . Masculine identity and identification as ethnomethodological phenomena: revisiting Cameron and Kulick . . 5 . 2 . 187–211 . 10.1558/genl.v5i2.187 . December 2011 .

External links

• Deborah Cameron, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at Oxford
• Deborah Cameron's academia.edu page--contains links to a number of her writings
• Language: A Feminist Guide, her blog
• Extracts from her book "The Myth of Mars and Venus" (review):
  • "What language barrier?", The Guardian.
  • "Speak up, I can't hear you", The Guardian.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cameron, Deborah, 1958– . Library of Congress . 27 February 2015 . data sheet (b. 11/10/58) .
2. News: Talking tosh on Mars and Venus. https://web.archive.org/web/20080515224130/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2602555.ece. dead. 15 May 2008. Caesar. Ed. 7 October 2007. The Sunday Times. 24 May 2008 . London.
3. Web site: Staff profiles: Deborah Cameron . University of Oxford . 27 February 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150227165745/http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/about-faculty/faculty-members/language-and-linguistics/cameron-professor-deborah . 27 February 2015 . dead .
4. News: Cameron . Deborah . What language barrier? . 27 February 2015 . . 1 October 2007 .
5. Book: Cameron . Deborah . Feminism and Linguistic Theory . 1985 . Macmillan . London . 0333370775.