Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Auteur de Language and Women's Place
A propos de l'auteur
Robin Tolmach Lakoff is a Professor of Linguistics Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. Laurel A. Sutton is a linguist and co-founder of Catchword.
Œuvres de Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Father Knows Best: The Use and Abuse of Power in Freud's Case of Dora (Athene Series) (1993) 4 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1942-11-27
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Études
- Radcliffe College (BA)
Indiana University (MA)
Harvard University (PhD) - Professions
- professor emerita (Linguistics)
linguist - Relations
- Lakoff, George (husband|divorced)
- Organisations
- Linguistics Society of America
University of California, Berkeley
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 417
- Popularité
- #58,443
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 24
Her humorless and insulting style defeats her ostensible purpose, makes the reader want to flee, and the content is not academically helpful: Parellel words are actually equivalent, NOT "widely different" -- not in the extreme that she delineates. "Bachelor uncle/ Maiden aunt" are closer than she claims and "master/mistress" "king/queen" for the long-term, historically, are equivalent if not "equal". She fails to show examples of exalted/despicable parallelisms, although there is no question of non-parallelism. There IS linguistic prejudice, but she fails to cite the extremes, and labels the middling ranges with provocative words.
The author was a Linguist in an institution in which other women -- around her turf -- did not thrive. Curiously, this book contains "linguistic" errors ("supersegmental patterns" probably meant suprasegmental. Gad.)… (plus d'informations)