A Person Paper on Purity in Language (with Post Scriptum)
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
About the article
This is a satrical piece, on the subject of sexist language, by Douglas R. Hofstadter, who is best known as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. It was originally published in September 1983 (without Post Scriptum).
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Publications of the article
- Scientific American
- Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Basic Books, 1985.
- The Production of Reality: Essays and Readings on Social Interaction, Jodi A O'Brien and Peter Kollock ed., SAGE Publications.
- The Feminist Critique of Language: a Reader, Deborah Cameron ed., Routledge, 1990.
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