[Gala-l] Book publication: Context Counts: Papers on Language, Gender, and Power by Robin Lakoff

[Laurel Sutton]

I am pleased to announce the publication of a new collection of Robin
Lakoff's important work, entitled "Context Counts: Papers on Language,
Gender, and Power", published by Oxford University Press, and edited by
Laurel Sutton (me).

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Context Counts assembles, for the first time, the work of pre-eminent
linguist Robin Tolmach Lakoff. A career that spans some forty years, Lakoff
remains one of the most influential linguists of the 20th-century. The
early papers show the genesis of Lakoff's inquiry into the relationship of
language and social power, ideas later codified in the groundbreaking
Language and Woman's Place and Talking Power. The late papers reflect her
continued exposition of power dynamics beyond gender that are established
and represented in language.

This volume offers a retrospective analysis of Lakoff's work, with each
paper preceded by an introduction from a prominent linguist in the field,
including both contemporaries and students of Lakoff's work, and further,
Lakoff's own conversation with these responses. This engaging and, at
times, moving reevaluation pays homage to Lakoff's far-reaching influence
upon linguistics, while also serving as an unusual form of autobiography
revealing the decades' long evolution of a scholarly career.

Table of Contents:

1. Language in context (1972)
Introduction by Sally McConnell-Ginet

2. The logic of politeness; or, Minding your P's and Q's (1973)
Introduction by Sachiko Ide

3. Excerpts from two 1974 papers: Pluralism in linguistics; Linguistic
theory and the real world
Introduction by Birch Moonwomon

4. You say what you are: Acceptability and gender-related language (1977)
Introduction by Mary Bucholtz

5. Stylistic strategies within a grammar of style (1979)
Introduction by Deborah Tannen

6. When talk is not cheap: Psychotherapy as conversation (1979)
Introduction by Joan Swann

7. Some of my favorite writers are literate (1982)
Introduction by Jenny Cook-Gumperz

8. Persuasive discourse and ordinary conversation: Advertising as an
example (1982)
Introduction by Janet S. (Shibamoto) Smith

9. Doubletalk: Sexism in tech talk (1983)
Introduction by Susan Ervin-Tripp

10. My life in court (1986)
Introduction by Susan Blackwell

11. The way we were; or; The real actual truth about generative semantics:
A memoir (1989)
Introduction by Georgia Green

12. Women and disability (review essay) (1989)
Introduction by Suzette Haden Elgin

13. Pragmatics and the law: Speech act theory confronts the First Amendment
(1992)
Introduction by Susan C. Herring

14. The rhetoric of reproduction (1992)
Introduction by Laurel A. Sutton

15. True confessions? Pragmatic competence and criminal confession (1996)
Introduction by Linda Coleman

16. Afterword
by Robin Lakoff

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