Robin Lakoff

Robin Lakoff
Robin Lakoff
Born	Robin Beth Tolmach; November 27, 1942; New York City, U.S.
Died	August 5, 2025 (aged 82); Walnut Creek, California, U.S.
Known for	Language and gender
Spouse	George Lakoff (m. 1964; div. 1975)
Children	1
Academic background
Alma mater	Radcliffe College; Indiana University Bloomington; Harvard University;
Thesis	Studies in the transformational grammar of Latin: The complement system (1967)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Sub-discipline	Interactional sociolinguistics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan
Doctoral students	Deborah Tannen, Mary Bucholtz

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Robin Beth Tolmach Lakoff (/ˈleɪkɒf/; November 27, 1942 – August 5, 2025) was an American linguist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Her 1975 book Language and Woman's Place is often credited with making language and gender a major subfield focus in linguistics and other disciplines.