Deborah Cameron (born 10 November 1958) is a feminist linguist who currently holds the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford University.
Cameron is mainly interested in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. A large part of her academic research is focused on the relationship of language to gender and sexuality. She wrote the book The Myth of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages? which was published in 2007.
Books in order of publication:
The lust to kill: a feminist investigation of sexual murder -1987
Researching language: issues of power and method – 1992
Verbal hygiene (1st ed.) – 1995
Good to talk? Living and working in a communication culture – 2000
Working with spoken discourse – 2001
Globalization and language teaching – 2002
The words between the spaces: buildings and language – 2002
Language and sexuality – 2003
The language and sexuality reader – 2006
On language and sexual politics – 2006
The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages? – 2008
The Trouble & Strife reader – 2010
More heat than light? Sex-difference science & the study of language – 2012
Working with written discourse – 2014
