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'''Sara Mills''' is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at [[Sheffield Hallam University]], England. Her linguistic interests are the comparison of linguistic forms of expression in different languages, particularly in reference to [[politeness]]. <ref name=aboutEPC>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HkY3DwAAQBAJ "About the Author"], In: Sara Mills, ''English Politeness and Class''</ref> Her another major work area is [[feminism]]<ref name=home>[https://teaching.shu.ac.uk/ds/slm/ Sara Mills webpage] at SHU</ref>
'''Sara Mills''' (b. 1954) is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at [[Sheffield Hallam University]], England. Her linguistic interests are the comparison of linguistic forms of expression in different languages, particularly in reference to [[politeness]].<ref name="aboutEPC">{{Cite book |last=Mills |first=Sara |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HkY3DwAAQBAJ |title=English Politeness and Class |date=2017-10-19 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-34041-0 |language=en}}</ref> Her other major work area is [[feminism]].<ref name="home">{{Cite web |title=Sara Mills home page |url=https://teaching.shu.ac.uk/ds/slm/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=teaching.shu.ac.uk}}</ref>


She has published many books and articles on politeness and discursive approaches to the analysis of politeness. She has also published on feminist linguistic theory.<ref name=aboutEPC/><ref>[https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/2015/01/10/sara-mills-researcher-profile/ Sara Mills Researcher Profile] at [[Center for Intercultural Dialogue]]</ref>
She has published many books and articles on politeness and discursive approaches to the analysis of politeness. She has also published on [[Feminist linguistics|feminist linguistic theory]].<ref name=aboutEPC/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dialogue |first=Author Center for Intercultural |date=2015-01-09 |title=Sara Mills Profile |url=https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/2015/01/10/sara-mills-profile/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=Center for Intercultural Dialogue |language=en}}</ref>


==Books==
==Books==
*1991: ''Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism '', [[Routledge]], {{ISBN|0415046297}},
*1991: ''Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism '', [[Routledge]], {{ISBN|0415046297}},
*:Mills argues that British women travelers "were unable to adopt the [[imperialism|imperial voice]] with the ease with which the male writers did".<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1395355?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents ''Discourses of Difference'' book review] by Catherine Hall, ''Feminist Review'', No. 45, Thinking Through Ethnicities (Autumn, 1993), pp. 132-136</ref>
*:Mills argues that British women travelers "were unable to adopt the [[imperialism|imperial voice]] with the ease with which the male writers did".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hall |first1=Catherine |title=Review of Women's Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918; Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism; Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation |journal=Feminist Review |date=1993 |issue=45 |pages=132–136 |doi=10.2307/1395355 |jstor=1395355 }}</ref>
*1997, 2004: ''Discourse'' (The New Critical Idiom Series, Routledge)
*1997, 2004: ''Discourse'' (The New Critical Idiom Series, Routledge)
*: Analyzes the term '[[discourse]]' and examines theoretical assumptions surrounding it, discusses the works of various discourse theoretists
*: Analyzes the term '[[discourse]]' and examines theoretical assumptions surrounding it, discusses the works of various discourse theoretists
**1997: {{ISBN|041511053X}}
**1997: {{ISBN|041511053X}}
**2004: {{ISBN|0415290139}}
**2004: {{ISBN|0415290139}}
*2003: ''Gender and Politeness'' {{ISBN|9780521009195}}
*2003: ''Gender and Politeness'' {{ISBN|9780521009195}}
** "Mills argues that, although women speakers, drawing on stereotypes of [[femininity]], can appear to be acting more politely than men, there are many circumstances where women will act as "impolitely" as men." ... "Focuses on the conversational strategies used to avoid giving offence and shows how they relate to questions of gender" <ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/gender-and-politeness?format=PB&isbn=9780521009195 ''Gender and Politeness''], a [[Cambridge University Press]] webpage</ref>
** "Mills argues that, although women speakers, drawing on stereotypes of [[femininity]], can appear to be acting more politely than men, there are many circumstances where women will act as "impolitely" as men." ... "Focuses on the conversational strategies used to avoid giving offence and shows how they relate to questions of gender"<ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/gender-and-politeness?format=PB&isbn=9780521009195 ''Gender and Politeness''], a [[Cambridge University Press]] webpage</ref>
*2003: '' Michel Foucault'', (Critical Thinkers Series, Routledge)
*2003: '' Michel Foucault'', (Critical Thinkers Series, Routledge)
*2003: (co-edited with [[Reina Lewis]]) '' Feminist Post-Colonial Theory: An Anthology''
*2003: (co-edited with [[Reina Lewis]]) '' Feminist Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader''<ref>{{Cite book |title=Feminist postcolonial theory: a reader |date=2010 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-1349-6 |editor-last=Lewis |editor-first=Reina |edition=transferred to digital print |location=Edinburgh |editor-last2=Mills |editor-first2=Sara}}</ref>
*2005: ''Gender and Colonial Space'', Manchester University Press
*2005: ''Gender and Colonial Space'', Manchester University Press
*2008: ''Language and Sexism''
*2008: ''Language and Sexism''
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Latest revision as of 01:50, 1 May 2024

Sara Mills (b. 1954) is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at Sheffield Hallam University, England. Her linguistic interests are the comparison of linguistic forms of expression in different languages, particularly in reference to politeness.[1] Her other major work area is feminism.[2]

She has published many books and articles on politeness and discursive approaches to the analysis of politeness. She has also published on feminist linguistic theory.[1][3]

Books[edit]

  • 1991: Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism , Routledge, ISBN 0415046297,
    Mills argues that British women travelers "were unable to adopt the imperial voice with the ease with which the male writers did".[4]
  • 1997, 2004: Discourse (The New Critical Idiom Series, Routledge)
    Analyzes the term 'discourse' and examines theoretical assumptions surrounding it, discusses the works of various discourse theoretists
  • 2003: Gender and Politeness ISBN 9780521009195
    • "Mills argues that, although women speakers, drawing on stereotypes of femininity, can appear to be acting more politely than men, there are many circumstances where women will act as "impolitely" as men." ... "Focuses on the conversational strategies used to avoid giving offence and shows how they relate to questions of gender"[5]
  • 2003: Michel Foucault, (Critical Thinkers Series, Routledge)
  • 2003: (co-edited with Reina Lewis) Feminist Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader[6]
  • 2005: Gender and Colonial Space, Manchester University Press
  • 2008: Language and Sexism
  • 2009: (with Dániel Z. Kádár) Ch. 2. "Politeness and Culture", In: Politeness in East Asia, Cambridge University Press
  • 2011: (with Louise Mullany), Language Gender and Feminism
  • 2012: Gender Matters: Feminist Linguistic Analysis, ISBN 1845534964
  • 2017: English Politeness and Class, ISBN 1108340415

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Mills, Sara (2017-10-19). English Politeness and Class. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-34041-0.
  2. ^ "Sara Mills home page". teaching.shu.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  3. ^ Dialogue, Author Center for Intercultural (2015-01-09). "Sara Mills Profile". Center for Intercultural Dialogue. Retrieved 2024-05-01. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ Hall, Catherine (1993). "Review of Women's Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918; Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism; Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation". Feminist Review (45): 132–136. doi:10.2307/1395355. JSTOR 1395355.
  5. ^ Gender and Politeness, a Cambridge University Press webpage
  6. ^ Lewis, Reina; Mills, Sara, eds. (2010). Feminist postcolonial theory: a reader (transferred to digital print ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-1349-6.
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