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... Suzette Haden Elgin , however , decided that , instead of talking about the creation of a women's language , she would do it . Rather than remain within the linguistic boundaries of English , Elgin used her knowledge of non - l - E ...
... Suzette Haden Elgin , however , decided that , instead of talking about the creation of a women's language , she would do it . Rather than remain within the linguistic boundaries of English , Elgin used her knowledge of non - l - E ...
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... Suzette Haden Elgin has written four books describing the five basic modes of communi- cation and the eight primary forms of verbal attack : The Gentle Art of Verbal Self - Defense ( Englewood Cliffs , NJ : Prentice - Hall , 1980 ) ...
... Suzette Haden Elgin has written four books describing the five basic modes of communi- cation and the eight primary forms of verbal attack : The Gentle Art of Verbal Self - Defense ( Englewood Cliffs , NJ : Prentice - Hall , 1980 ) ...
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... Suzette Haden Elgin commented , after reading a series of papers by Stanley R. Witkowski , Cecil H. Brown , and Paul K. Chase on how things get named ( lexicalization ) , that she believed that the vocabulary would be very different if ...
... Suzette Haden Elgin commented , after reading a series of papers by Stanley R. Witkowski , Cecil H. Brown , and Paul K. Chase on how things get named ( lexicalization ) , that she believed that the vocabulary would be very different if ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues Julia Penelope No preview available - 1990 |
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