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''''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 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== *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>{{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) *: Analyzes the term '[[discourse]]' and examines theoretical assumptions surrounding it, discusses the works of various discourse theoretists **1997: {{ISBN|041511053X}} **2004: {{ISBN|0415290139}} *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> *2003: '' Michel Foucault'', (Critical Thinkers Series, Routledge) *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 *2008: ''Language and Sexism'' *2009: (with Dániel Z. Kádár) [https://www.academia.edu/10124333/Politeness_and_Culture_in_Politeness_in_East_Asia_Cambridge_University_Press_ 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== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mills, Sara}} [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Linguists from England]] [[Category:Women linguists]] [[Category:Academics of Sheffield Hallam University]] [[Category:Feminist studies scholars]]'