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In his Growth and Structure of the English Language, Otto Jespersen noted how few diminutives English has, and how little it uses them.
Unfortunately, there has not been a good (bookwriting) linguist who was also a good writer of expository prose since Otto Jespersen, the Santayana of linguistics, and he died in 1943.
The Feminist Critique of Language brings together a wide range of views and approaches to its subject, ranging from the conservative linguist Otto Jespersen and the author Virginia Woolf writing in the 1920s to contemporary critics.
Most investigators, feminist and nonfeminist alike, agree that women's vernacular differs from men's: Jespersen listed adjectives favored by women, noted women's use of “little” intensifiers.
A chronological structure would have directly juxtaposed Jespersen with Woolf and then enabled the reader to find a way through the developments in the debate, giving a more coherent picture of the broadening issues.