Deborah Cameron is a Scottish feminist linguist, who currently holds the Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate....

 Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

. She is mainly interested in sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society...

 and linguistic anthropology

Linguistic anthropology

Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages, and has grown over the past 100 years to encompass almost any aspect of language structure and...

. A large part of her academic research is focused on the relationship of language to gender and sexuality. Cameron wrote the book The Myth Of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?

The Myth Of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?

The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages? is a 2007 book by Professor Deborah Cameron, published by Oxford University Press.Dr...

, published in 2007.

External links

• Deborah Cameron, English faculty of Oxford
• Extracts from her Book "The Myth of Mars and Venus" (review):
  • What language barrier?
  • Speak up, I can't hear you.
• Informal biography