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Robin Lakoff

American linguist

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born: 1942
died: 2025
age at death: 82
known for: linguist, university teacher

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Robin Beth Tolmach Lakoff was an American linguist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Her 1975 book Language and Woman's Place is often credited with making language and gender a major subfield focus in linguistics and other disciplines.

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