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Publication details [#5909]
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 1977. You say what you are: Acceptability and gender-related language. In Greenbaum, Sidney, ed. Acceptability in language. Mouton. pp. 73–86.
Annotation
L. claims that in a given context, women and men may not express the same thing in the same way. The differences are said to involve hierarchical acceptability.