Publications

Publication details [#5900]

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 1973. Language and woman's place. Language in Society 2 (1) : 45–80.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

self-consciousness | sexism | stereotype | women's language

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

A description of 'woman's language' and the way in which one speaks differently of women than of men. The existing discrepancies are said to be harmful to women's self-image and the image people in general form of women's character and abilities.

Reviewed by

Semiloff, Holly. 1977. Review of $Language and woman's place.

Dubois, Betty Lou and Isabel Crouch. 1975. The question of tag questions in women's speech: They don't really use more of them, do they?

Reprints

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 1975. In Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. Language and woman's place. Harper and Row. pp. 3–50.