Deborah Cameron (linguist)

Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox scholar Template:Anthropology of kinship Deborah Cameron (born 10 November 1958) is a British linguist and feminist who currently holds the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford University.

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

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

Journal articles

See also: and Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

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.