Deborah Cameron (born 10 November 1958) is a British linguist and feminist who currently holds the

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Professorship in Language and Communication at

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. Cameron is mainly interested in

sociolinguistics Sociolinguistics is the descriptive, scientific study of how language is shaped by, and used differently within, any given society. The field largely looks at how a language changes between distinct social groups, as well as how it varies unde ...

and

linguistic anthropology Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages and has grown over the past century to encompass mo ...

. 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,

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in Virginia,

Strathclyde University The University of Strathclyde () is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, having received its royal charter in 1964 as the first techn ...

in Glasgow and the

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in London.

Selected bibliography

Books

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References

External links

Deborah Cameron, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at OxfordDeborah Cameron's academia.edu page--contains links to a number of her writingsLanguage: A Feminist Guide
her blog *Extracts from her book "The Myth of Mars and Venus"
review
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What language barrier?
, ''The Guardian''. *
Speak up, I can't hear you
, ''The Guardian''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cameron, Deborah 1958 births Academics of the UCL Institute of Education Academics of the University of Roehampton Academics of the University of Strathclyde British women linguists College of William & Mary faculty Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford Linguists from England Living people Statutory Professors of the University of Oxford British feminists 20th-century British linguists 21st-century British linguists