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1. Verbal Hygiene

   By Deborah Cameron

   Series: The Politics of Language

   BAAL Book Prize Winner 1996 In this award winning book Deborah Cameron takes a serious look at popular attitudes towards language and examines the practices by which people attempt to regulate its use. Instead of dismissing the practice of 'verbal hygiene', as a misguided and pernicious...

   Published October 1st 2012 by Routledge
2. Verbal Hygiene

   By Deborah Cameron

   Series: Routledge Linguistics Classics

   In Verbal Hygiene, Deborah Cameron takes a serious look at popular attitudes towards language and examines the practices by which people attempt to regulate its use. Instead of dismissing the practice of ‘verbal hygiene’, as a misguided and pernicious exercise, she argues that popular discourse...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Language and Sexuality Reader

   Edited by Deborah Cameron, DON KULICK

   The Language and Sexuality Reader is the first of its kind to bring together material from the fields of anthropology, communication studies, linguistics, medicine and psychology in an examination of the role of sexuality in written and spoken language. Organized into thematic sections, the Reader...

   Published April 26th 2006 by Routledge
4. On Language and Sexual Politics

   By Deborah Cameron

   This collection of articles presents a selection of Deborah Cameron’s work on language, gender and sex in one single volume. Arranged thematically, this book covers major developments in Anglo-American feminist linguistics, and Cameron’s responses to these, spanning the last twenty years. The...

   Published February 2nd 2006 by Routledge
5. Globalization and Language Teaching

   Edited by David Block, Deborah Cameron

   This book considers the issues globalization raises for second language learning and teaching. Block and Cameron's collection shows how, in an economy based on services and information, the linguistic skills of workers becomes increasingly important. New technologies make possible new kinds of...

   Published October 24th 2001 by Routledge
6. The Words Between the Spaces

   Buildings and Language

   By Deborah Cameron, Thomas A. Markus

   Series: Architext

   Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs,...

   Published October 24th 2001 by Routledge
7. Feminist Critique of Language

   second edition

   By Deborah Cameron

   Series: World and Word

   The Feminist Critique of Language provides a wide-ranging selection of writings on language, gender, and feminist thought. It serves both as a guide to the current debates and directions and as a digest of the history of twentieth-century feminist ideas about language. This edition ...

   Published March 11th 1998 by Routledge