Context Counts
Papers on Language, Gender, and Power
Robin Tolmach Lakoff and Edited by Laurel Sutton
Author Information
Robin Lakoff is is a professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her 1975 book Language and Woman's Place is often credited with establishing language and gender as an object of study in linguistics and other disciplines.
Laurel Sutton is a linguist and branding expert living in the San Francisco Bay Area. After earning her Master's in Linguistics from UC Berkeley, she went on to co-found Catchword, a top-tier naming company. Her linguistic expertise is in phonetics and sociolinguistics.
Contributors:
Susan A. Blackwell, Language Consultancy Desk
Mary Bucholtz, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Linda Coleman, Department of English, University of Maryland
Jenny Cook-Gumperz, Department of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
Suzette Haden Elgin, Associate Professor Emeritus (Retired), Dept. of Linguistics, San Diego State University; Director, Ozark Center for Language Studies
Susan Ervin-Tripp, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Emerita
Georgia Green, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Emerita
Susan C. Herring, Professor of Information Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
Sachiko Ide, Department of English, Japan Women's University, Retired
Sally McConnell-Ginet, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University, Emerita
Birch Moonwomon, Department of English, Sonoma State University
Janet S. (Shibamoto) Smith, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, Emerita
Laurel A. Sutton, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley/Sutton Strategy
Joan Swann, Director of the Centre for Language and Communications, The Open University
Deborah Tannen, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University