Evolution, sex/gender and sociolinguistics

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• Prof. Deborah Cameron, Faculty of English, University of Oxford
• Thursday 27 May 2010, 17:00-18:30
• GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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Human sexual dimorphism, and the division of labour and social roles based upon it, feature strongly in many of the stories constructed by language evolution scholars, while conversely stories about evolution feature strongly in recent discourse on male-female linguistic differences. In this talk I consider how these accounts connect, or fail to connect, with the evidence of sociolinguistic research on the relationship between language and gender.

This talk is part of the Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc) series.

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