Deborah Cameron (born 10 November 1958) is a feminist linguist 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 study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural Norm (sociology), norms, expectations, and context (language use), context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on languag ...

and

linguistic anthropology Linguistic anthropology is the Interdisciplinarity, 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 cen ...

. 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

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in Virginia,

Strathclyde University The University of Strathclyde ( gd, Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) 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 chart ...

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"
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What language barrier?

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