Verbal Hygiene by Deborah Cameron

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Verbal Hygiene by Deborah Cameron

This reissue will include a new foreword and an afterword which will address the original need for the book and developments which have occurred since publishing the book.

‘Professor Cameron’s book is a deeply-absorbing, brilliantly-written discussion of linguistically-manifested social attitudes’

Barbara Allen, University of Brighton, UK

‘Written clearly, and in a very accessible style – beneath the ease with which you can read the book, there are substantial issues that provide interesting challenges to linguists and teachers of linguistics.’

Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Auckland, New Zealand

‘The book deserves to be classed as a 'classic'. First and foremost, it defined and established the concept/term of 'verbal hygiene', which is widely used to this day in a variety of sociolinguistic contexts. Secondly, it continues to provoke and inspire some fifteen years after its publication - which is what a classic ought to do.’

Stavroula Varella, University of Chichester, UK

Deborah Cameron is Professor of Language and Communication in the English Faculty of Oxford University. A sociolinguist and discourse analyst, she is the author of Good to Talk? (2000), On Language and Sexual Politics (2006) and The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007).
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ISBN 13 9780415696005
ISBN 10 0415696003
Title Verbal Hygiene
Author Deborah Cameron
Series Routledge Linguistics Classics
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 2012-02-24
Number of pages 328
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.