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
1991: Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism ,
Routledge,
ISBN0415046297,
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
"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
^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.
JSTOR1395355.