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Although this chapter and the next are about sex differences in the use of language, they should not be treated as an exhaustive catalogue of research findings on that subject. Rather, they have two concerns: the first, which they share with Chapter 5, is with the sexism of linguistic science, as expressed in various assumptions and practices; while the second is with the political significance of sex difference itself.
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Jonathan Swift, ‘A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue’, in H. Davis (ed.), Prose works of Jonathan Swift Vol.IV (Blackwell, 1957 ).
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Cameron, D. (1992). The Politics of Variation: Sex Differences in Language (I). In: Feminism and Linguistic Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22334-3_3
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