D Cameron
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1253 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D Cameron |
| NOMBRES | D |
| APELLIDO | Cameron |
| FIRMA | CAMERON D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5959-602X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 92 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 479 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1937 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Problems of empowerment in linguistic research
The unequal social positioning of researcher and researched is an enduring feature of normal social science. People who are regarded as a ‘social problem’ (the poor, excluded, criminalized, ‘minorities’, etc.) inevitably also become a social science research problem; even if there is no explicit agenda of social control, the knowledge we make about such people contributes to the workings of disciplinary power. Yet when you are actually doing rese…
Women, Civility and the Language of Politics
This article draws on research which analyses both the actual speech of women in political and public settings and the way their speech is represented in media reports and other commentary. It argues that there is a disconnect between reality and representation, and that the effect is to place a particular burden on women. Women are judged in relation to the belief that they will civilise public discourse thanks to their ‘naturally’ less adversar…
Constructing women’s “different voice
Since the 1990s, media commentators in the UK and elsewhere have praised women for introducing a “visibly different style of politics”, one symbol of which is the alleged preference of female politicians for a less adversarial and more co-operative style of political speech. Drawing on an analysis of the 2015 UK General Election campaign, we argue that this notion of women’s “different voice” has become increasingly central to the media’s constru…
Language and gender
Issues related to gender (and sexuality), largely ignored in the early development of sociolinguistics, have emerged as a cornerstone of the field. Spurred on by the feminist movement and new generations of engaged scholars addressing how language use both reveals and embeds gender inequalities, scholarship on such questions is now "mainstream" across a range of disciplines. Deborah Cameron argues that the primary focus in recent decades on socia…
Conclusion
This chapter discusses the different kinds of involvement with informants have been outlined – &s;on&s;; &s;on and for&s;; &s;on, for and with&s;. It introduces the concepts of ethical, advocate and empowering research positions. The chapter discusses epistemological positions – positivism, relativism, realism – according to the potential which they offer for empowering research and generally opted for realism. It focuses on methods of data colle…
‘Respect, Please!’
This chapter explores some work carried out in 1986 with young Afro-Caribbeans in a London youth club. A group of young people, together with two youth workers and a sociolinguist spent some weeks exploring issues of racism, Black history and ethnic identity in relation to language, eventually producing a video on these topics which we entitled &s;Respect, Please!&s;. Many club members have been involved with Charterhouse for a period of years; t…
Researching Language
Qué tiene que ver el género con el sexo? Lenguaje, heterosexualidad y heteronormatividad
Este artículo es el tercer capítulo del libro Language and Sexuality, Deborah Cameron y Don Kulick, Cambridge University Press, 2003.Traducción de Mónica Dorado y Gabriela Castellanos. Traducción autorizada por los autores y por la editorial
Hablar de sexo y pensar en sexo
Traducción del capítulo 2 del libro Language and sexuality de Deborah Cameron y Don Kulick, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), autorizada por los autores y por la editorial.Traductor: Andrés Felipe Castelar
The linguistic representation of sexual violence in conflict settings
Although numerous studies have examined the representation of sexual violence in news and legal discourse, less is known about its representation when it occurs in the context of military and political conflict. This study analyses reports from the New York Times on two such contexts: the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Analysis reveals both similarities with the language used to report rape in non-conflict settings, …
Straight talking
Pendant la majeure partie de son histoire, l'étude du langage et de la sexualité était centrée sur les pratiques distinctives de locuteurs s'identifiant comme membres de groupes sexuels minoritaires. Cet article pose l'importance, pour les chercheurs dans ce domaine, de s'intéresser, d'un point de vue critique, aux pratiques linguistiques associées à l'appartenance à la catégorie sexuelle identitaire dominante, c'est-à-dire à l'hétérosexualité. S…
Verbal Hygiene
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 about language values – good and bad, right and wrong – serves an important function for those engaged in it. A series of case studies deal with specific …
The commodification of language
When languages are called “commodities,” it suggests the existence of a market or markets in which languages and language varieties, like other tradable commodities, have an economic exchange value. The concept of a “linguistic market” is not a new idea; linguists can trace it to the work of Pierre Bourdieu. This article focuses on the transnational or global linguistic market in which English is a highly-valued commodity. One area of activity in…
Not changing English
This article offers a personal view of the reform of the undergraduate English syllabus which is soon to come into effect at Oxford University. The particular example is analysed in relation to two more general developments: on one hand, changing conceptions of the place and purpose of language study in the discipline of English, and on the other, the pressures faced by UK universities as a result of new higher education funding policies
Sociophonetics and Sexuality
Research Article| February 01 2011 Sociophonetics and Sexuality: Discussion Deborah Cameron Deborah Cameron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2011) 86 (1): 98–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1277537 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Deborah Cameron; Sociophonetics and Sexuality: Discussion. American Speech 1 February 2011; 86 (1): 98–103…
Gender and the Language of Illness
Charteris-Black, J. and Seale, C. Gender and the Language of Illness . Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 . 247 pp £50.00 (hbk). 978-0-2302- 2235-9 On the day I began reading Gender and the Language of Illness, a UK junior health minister made a speech suggesting that overweight people would be more likely to change their lifestyles if health professionals stopped calling them 'obese' and told them bluntly that they were 'fat'. T…
Gender, Language, and the New Biologism
“How May I Help You?”
This chapter, written by Ann Kristina Hultgren and Deborah Cameron, is concerned with questions in telephone interactions between customers and service personnel (“agents”) in a Scottish call center that is part of a large insurance company; the data involve inbound calls initiated by the customers. The company imposes standards on the agents relating to both efficiency and customer care, applying the same closely controlled strategies to both. T…
Demythologizing Sociolinguistics
Unaccustomed as we are
Sexed Texts
Language
Going Dutch
Talk from the top down
Language
Styling the worker
This paper discusses some sociolinguistic characteristics of the speech style prescribed to workers for interacting with customers in service contexts, focusing in particular on the linguistic and vocal 'styling' prescribed for operators in telephone call centres in the U.K. Attention is drawn to the similarities between the preferred style of speech and what is popularly thought of as 'women's language'. The intensive regulation of service worke…
Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Sociolinguistic (and some applied linguistic) research dealing with questions of gender and sexuality has undergone significant change in the past 10-15 years, as a paradigm organized around the concept of binary difference has been superseded by one that is concerned with the diversity of gendered and sexual identities and practices. Here the theoretical foundations for the shift in approach-provisionally characterized as a kind of 'postmodern t…
Researching Language
The phylogenetic significance of the Middle Pleistocene Narmada hominin cranium from central India
A parsimony analysis of the Narmada cranium from central India and a number of other demes and species ofHomoconcludes that the Narmada hominin shares a closer relationship with the European Steinheim specimen, than with AsianH. erectusorH. pekinensis. This suggests that the population represented by the Narmada cranium is likely to have had its origins in Europe rather than in Asia. Overall the available evidence supports an 'Out of Africa' scen…
Ethics, advocacy and empowerment
Is there any Ketchup, Vera
This article revisits recent arguments about gender-linked variations in conversational style and the phenomenon of male-female misunderstanding to which those variations allegedly give rise. Drawing on the framework of linguistic pragmatics, I propose that `male-female misunderstanding' could fruitfully be analysed as a kind of conflict, occurring not on the surface of discourse but at the level of the assumptions about gender which conversation…
Identity crisis
Talk from the top down
Introduction
Ideology and language
In this paper it is suggested that while most theorists of ideology implicitly or explicitly link it to language, the notion of 'language' itself is often under-theorized. In particular, discussions of its relationship to ideology often fail to acknowledge that language is not simply a vehicle for other ideological processes but is itself shaped by ideological processes. It is argued that many influential accounts of the ideological and political…
Not gender difference but the difference gender makes′ - explanation in research on sex and language
Article ′Not gender difference but the difference gender makes′ — explanation in research on sex and language was published on January 1, 1992 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1992, issue 94)
The Lust to Kill
Revised correlation of the Haritalyangar magnetostratigraphy, Indian Siwaliks
Straight talking
Pendant la majeure partie de son histoire, l'étude du langage et de la sexualité était centrée sur les pratiques distinctives de locuteurs s'identifiant comme membres de groupes sexuels minoritaires. Cet article pose l'importance, pour les chercheurs dans ce domaine, de s'intéresser, d'un point de vue critique, aux pratiques linguistiques associées à l'appartenance à la catégorie sexuelle identitaire dominante, c'est-à-dire à l'hétérosexualité. S…
Sociophonetics and Sexuality
Research Article| February 01 2011 Sociophonetics and Sexuality: Discussion Deborah Cameron Deborah Cameron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2011) 86 (1): 98–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1277537 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Deborah Cameron; Sociophonetics and Sexuality: Discussion. American Speech 1 February 2011; 86 (1): 98–103…
Gender, Language, and the New Biologism
Native Adminstration in Tanganyika and Nigeria
Journal Article Native Adminstration in Tanganyika and Nigeria Get access Donald Cameron, G.C.M.G Donald Cameron, G.C.M.G Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXXVI, Issue Supplement_CXLV, October 1937, Pages 3-t–29, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/XXXVI.Supplement_CXLV.3-t Published: 01 October 1937
Language and gender
Issues related to gender (and sexuality), largely ignored in the early development of sociolinguistics, have emerged as a cornerstone of the field. Spurred on by the feminist movement and new generations of engaged scholars addressing how language use both reveals and embeds gender inequalities, scholarship on such questions is now "mainstream" across a range of disciplines. Deborah Cameron argues that the primary focus in recent decades on socia…
Integrating conversation
Knowing What to Say
Constructing women’s “different voice
Since the 1990s, media commentators in the UK and elsewhere have praised women for introducing a “visibly different style of politics”, one symbol of which is the alleged preference of female politicians for a less adversarial and more co-operative style of political speech. Drawing on an analysis of the 2015 UK General Election campaign, we argue that this notion of women’s “different voice” has become increasingly central to the media’s constru…
The linguistic representation of sexual violence in conflict settings
Although numerous studies have examined the representation of sexual violence in news and legal discourse, less is known about its representation when it occurs in the context of military and political conflict. This study analyses reports from the New York Times on two such contexts: the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Analysis reveals both similarities with the language used to report rape in non-conflict settings, …
Applied linguistics and the perils of popularity
Relativity and its discontents
Better Conversations
This article discusses and carries out discourse analysis on a set of learning materials about ‘better conversation’ produced for British Telecommunications and made available to the British public in 1997. It is argued that many of the norms and strategies presented as desirable in the materials derive from the discourse practices that are valorized in therapeutic and quasi-therapeutic settings, and reflect the liberal, individualist, consensual…
Native Adminstration in Tanganyika and Nigeria
Journal Article Native Adminstration in Tanganyika and Nigeria Get access Donald Cameron, G.C.M.G Donald Cameron, G.C.M.G Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXXVI, Issue Supplement_CXLV, October 1937, Pages 3-t–29, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/XXXVI.Supplement_CXLV.3-t Published: 01 October 1937
Admissions to Scottish Mental Hospitals in the Last Hundred Years
The increase in admissions to mental hospitals in Scotland since 1941 shows no sign of abating, and it seems proper to examine the phenomenon historically with the hope that information relevant to the present situation will emerge
Feminism and Linguistic Theory
Some problems in the sociolinguistic explanation of sex differences
What is the Nature of Women's Oppression in Language
Today I want to examine the question of women's oppression in and through language. I want to argue that there are two sides to this: on one hand, the sort of critique of language familiar to us from the work of many feminists; and on the other, the use of linguistic methods of analysis to uncover and talk about oppression more generally. The original question put to this panel was: 'is gender implicated in the struggle for the sign?'. Let me the…
Feminism and Linguistic Theory
Preface to the Revised Edition - Introduction: Language and Feminism - Linguistic Theory: Frameworks and Approaches - The Politics of Variation: Sex Differences in Language (1) - Sex Differences in Language (2): Empirical Sociolinguistics - False Dichotomies: Grammar and Sexual Polarity - Making Changes: The Debate on Sexist Language - Silence, Alienation and Oppression: Feminist Models of Language (1) - Feminist Models of Language (2): Semiology…
The Lust to Kill
Knowing What to Say
Ten years on
(1990). Ten years on: ‘Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence’. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 35-37
Integrating conversation
Essentially Speaking
Feminism and Linguistic Theory
An introduction to theories about language in attempts to understand and transform women's lives. This evolving body of work encompasses linguistics, anthropology, literary and cultural theory, psycho
Pornography ‐ what is the problem? 1
Introduction I am among those feminists who believe that there is a problem with pornography, and more generally with the repertoire of culturally available representations of sex and gender. What I take the problem to be will, I hope, become clearer below; but in the first instance, I want to focus on the problem of defining the problem
Not gender difference but the difference gender makes′ - explanation in research on sex and language
Article ′Not gender difference but the difference gender makes′ — explanation in research on sex and language was published on January 1, 1992 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1992, issue 94)
Is There an Anglo-American Feminist Linguistics
Reply to comments
Ethics, advocacy and empowerment
Researching Language
Dr Syntax and Mrs Grundy
(1994). Dr Syntax and Mrs Grundy: Grammar, Myths and Morals. Changing English: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 34-43
St-i-i-i-ll Going… The Quest for Jack the Ripper
The accents of politics
Style policy and style politics
Sparing the Rod
(1997). Sparing the Rod: what teachers need to know about grammar. Changing English: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 229-239
Language
Language
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