02 October 2007

Do men speak Martian and women Venusian?

Deborah Cameron, a feminist linguist at Oxford, thinks not in the excellent and interesting extracts from her book currently being serialised in the Guardian. (These things are usually only up for a week due to copyright restrictions.)

Edit: part 2 is here.

2 comments:

Scarlett McQueen said...

I was extremely pleased to read this: some sanity at last. I am increasingly depressed by the casual way in which hideous generalisations are made about men and women and the apparently innate differences between the two.

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