Robin Lakoff
Professor, Author
1942 –
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Who is Robin Lakoff?
Robin Tolmach Lakoff 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.
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- Born
- Nov 27, 1942
Brooklyn - Also known as
- Robin Tolmach Lakoff
- Robin T. Lakoff
- Spouses
- George Lakoff
(1963/06/09 - )
- George Lakoff
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Harvard University
Linguistics
( - 1967) - Bachelor of Arts, Radcliffe College
( - 1964) - Master of Arts, Indiana University Bloomington
Classics
( - 1965) - Linguistics
- PhD, Harvard University
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- Berkeley
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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