Robin Lakoff
| Robin Tolmach Lakoff | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 24, 1942 Brooklyn, NY |
| Residence | Berkeley, California, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields |
Sociolinguistics Language and gender |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater |
Radcliffe College Indiana University Harvard University |
| Known for | Language and gender |
| Spouse | George Lakoff (divorced) |
Robin Tolmach Lakoff (/ˈleɪkɒf/, born November 27, 1942) is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her 1975 book Language and Woman's Place is often credited with establishing language and gender as an object of study in linguistics and other disciplines.
Lakoff was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a B.A. at Radcliffe College, a M.A. from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She was married to linguist George Lakoff. She has taught at University of California, Berkeley, since 1972.
While an undergraduate at Radcliffe College (in Cambridge, MA), Lakoff audited Noam Chomsky's classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and became connected to the MIT Linguistics Department. During this time, as Chomsky and students were creating Transformational Generative Grammar, Lakoff and others explored ways in which outside context entered the structure of language.
Lakoff is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.
Lakoff received national attention for an opinion piece in TIME titled "Hillary Clinton's Emailgate Is an Attack on Women".
Lakoff's work Language and Woman's Place introduces to the field of sociolinguistics many ideas about women's language that are now often commonplace. It has inspired many different strategies for studying language and gender, across national borders as well as across class and race lines.
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