Context Counts

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 Talki...