Sara Mills is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at Sheffield Hallam University, England. Her linguistic interests are the comparison of linguistic forms of expression in different languages, particularly in reference to

politeness Politeness is the practical application of good manners or etiquette so as not to offend others. It is a culturally defined phenomenon, and therefore what is considered polite in one culture can sometimes be quite rude or simply eccentric in an ...

."About the Author"
In: Sara Mills, ''English Politeness and Class'' Her other major work area is

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

.Sara Mills webpage
at SHU She has published many books and articles on politeness and discursive approaches to the analysis of politeness. She has also published on feminist linguistic theory.

Books

*1991: ''Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism '',

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, , *:Mills argues that British women travelers "were unable to adopt the imperial voice with the ease with which the male writers did". *1997, 2004: ''Discourse'' (The New Critical Idiom Series, Routledge) *: Analyzes the term ' discourse' and examines theoretical assumptions surrounding it, discusses the works of various discourse theoretists **1997: **2004: *2003: ''Gender and Politeness'' ** "Mills argues that, although women speakers, drawing on stereotypes of

femininity Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls. Femininity can be understood as socially constructed, and there is also some evidence that some behaviors considered f ...

, can appear to be acting more politely than men, there are many circumstances where women will act as "impolitely" as men." ... "Focuses on the conversational strategies used to avoid giving offence and shows how they relate to questions of gender"''Gender and Politeness''
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webpage *2003: '' Michel Foucault'', (Critical Thinkers Series, Routledge) *2003: (co-edited with Reina Lewis) '' Feminist Post-Colonial Theory: An Anthology'' *2005: ''Gender and Colonial Space'', Manchester University Press *2008: ''Language and Sexism'' *2009: (with Dániel Z. Kádár
Ch. 2. "Politeness and Culture"
In: ''Politeness in East Asia'', Cambridge University Press *2011: (with Louise Mullany), ''Language Gender and Feminism'' *2012: Gender Matters: Feminist Linguistic Analysis, *2017: ''English Politeness and Class'',

References

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