About Deborah Cameron (linguist)
Deborah Jane Cameron (10 November 1958 – 20 January 2026) was a British linguist and feminist who held the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford University. Cameron was mainly interested in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. A large part of her academic research was focused on the relationship of language to gender and sexuality. She wrote the book The Myth of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?, which was published in 2007. == Life and career == Before her post at Oxford University, Cameron taught at the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, The College of William & Mary in Virginia, Strathclyde University in Glasgow and the Institute of Education in London. Cameron died from pancreatic cancer on 20 January 2026, at the age of 67. == Selected bibliography == === Books === Cameron, Deborah (1985). Feminism and Linguistic Theory. London Basingstoke: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-37077-5.
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