Deborah Cameron (linguist)

Deborah Cameron (born 10 November 1958)[1] is a feminist linguist who currently holds the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford University.[2]

For other people with the same name, see Deborah Cameron.

Deborah Cameron
Born (1958-11-10) 10 November 1958
Academic background
Academic work
Main interestsSociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology
Notable worksThe Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?
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Cameron is mainly interested in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. A large part of her academic research is focused on the relationship of language to gender and sexuality.[3] She wrote the book The Myth of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?, which was published in 2007.[4]

Career

Before her post at Oxford University, Cameron taught at the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, The College of William & Mary in Virginia, Strathclyde University in Glasgow and the Institute of Education in London.[3]

Selected bibliography

Books
  • Cameron, Deborah; Frazer, Elizabeth (1987). The lust to kill: a feminist investigation of sexual murder. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814714157.
  • Cameron, Deborah; Frazer, Elizabeth; Harvey, Penelope; Rampton, M.B.H.; Richardson, Kay (1992). Researching language: issues of power and method. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415057226.
  • Cameron, Deborah (1995). Verbal hygiene (1st ed.). London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415103558.
  • Cameron, Deborah (2012). Verbal hygiene. Classics in Linguistics (Reprint ed.). London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415696005.
  • Cameron, Deborah (2000). Good to talk? Living and working in a communication culture. London Thousand Oaks, California: Sage. ISBN 9781412931557.
  • Cameron, Deborah (2001). Working with spoken discourse. London Thousand Oaks, California: Sage. ISBN 9780761957737.
  • Cameron, Deborah; Block, David (2002). Globalization and language teaching. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780203193679.
  • Cameron, Deborah; Markus, Thomas A. (2002). The words between the spaces: buildings and language. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780203360361.
  • Cameron, Deborah; Kulick, Don (2003). Language and sexuality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511791178.
  • Cameron, Deborah; Kulick, Don (2006). The language and sexuality reader. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780203013373.
  • Cameron, Deborah (2006). On language and sexual politics. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415373432.
  • Cameron, Deborah (2007). The myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages?. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199214471.
  • Cameron, Deborah; Scanlon, Joan (2010). The Trouble & Strife reader. London New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781849660129.
  • Cameron, Deborah (2012). More heat than light?: Sex-difference science & the study of language. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press. ISBN 9781553802211.
  • Cameron, Deborah; Panović, Ivan (2014). Working with written discourse. London Thousand Oaks, California: Sage. ISBN 9781446267226.

Chapters in books
  • Cameron, Deborah; Frazer, Elizabeth (1996), "The murderer as misogynist?", in Jackson, Stevi; Scott, Sue (eds.), Feminism and sexuality: a reader, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 207–215, ISBN 9780231107082.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Cameron, Deborah; Frazer, Elizabeth (1996), "On the question of pornography and sexual violence: moving beyond cause and effect", in Jackson, Stevi; Scott, Sue (eds.), Feminism and sexuality: a reader, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 321–332, ISBN 9780231107082.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Cameron, Deborah (2011), ""The virtues of good prose": verbal hygiene and the movement", in Leader, Zachary (ed.), The movement reconsidered: essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their contemporaries, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 139–154, ISBN 9780199601844.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Journal articles
  • Cameron, Deborah (July 1990). "Ten years on: "Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence"". Women: A Cultural Review. 1 (1): 35–37. doi:10.1080/09574049008578015.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
See also: Rich, Adrienne (Summer 1980). "Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 5 (4): 631–660. doi:10.1086/493756. JSTOR 3173834.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) and Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

Further reading

References
  1. "Cameron, Deborah, 1958–". Library of Congress. Retrieved 27 February 2015. data sheet (b. 11/10/58)
  2. Caesar, Ed (7 October 2007). "Talking tosh on Mars and Venus". The Sunday Times. London: Times Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
  3. "Staff profiles: Deborah Cameron". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  4. Cameron, Deborah (1 October 2007). "What language barrier?". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
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