Robin Tolmach Lakoff (/ˈleɪkɒf/; born November 27, 1942) is a professor emerita of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her 1975 book...

George Philip Lakoff (/ˈleɪkɒf/ LAY-kof; born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's...

Lakoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: George Lakoff (born 1941), American linguist and cognitive scientist Robin Lakoff (born...

often said to have begun with Robin Lakoff's 1975 book, Language and Woman's Place, as well as some earlier studies by Lakoff. The study of language and...

HRT extensively in his speeches as his presidency continued. Linguist Robin Lakoff drew attention to the pattern in her book Language and Women's Place...

have been altered for men since the advent of the sexual revolution. Robin Lakoff argues that the term indicates an inequality between men and women, as...

scope on only certain phonetic features. Language and gender scholar Robin Lakoff not only compares gay male with female speech but also claims that gay...

referred to as a "gentleman". One feminist proponent of language reform, Robin Lakoff, in her book Language and Woman's Place (1975), notably raised the issue...

when and how to be rude may indicate a person's pragmatic competence. Robin Lakoff addressed what she named strategic rudeness, a style of communication...

than some men). The initial identification of a women's register was by Robin Lakoff in 1975, who argued that the style of language served to maintain women's...