32.1251, Books: Women and Dictionary-Making: Russell

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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:28:55
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Women and Dictionary-Making: Russell

 


Title: Women and Dictionary-Making 
Subtitle: Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/women-and-dictionary-making-gender-genre-and-english-language-lexicography?form 


Author: Lindsay Rose Russell

Paperback: ISBN:  9781316638194 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 33.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316638194 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316638194 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

Dictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective
records of the language, impervious to personal bias. But who makes
dictionaries shapes both how they are constructed and how they are used.
Tracing the craft of dictionary making from the fifteenth century to the
present day, this book explores the vital but little-known significance of
women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women
worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics,
while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women's
involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical,
rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six
centuries of women's participation in dictionary making and a robust
investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social
expectations of gender.
 



1. Walking dictionary, sleeping dictionary: toward a gendered history of a
rhetorical genre; 2. Patronizing dictionaries: invocations of women at the
invention of the genre; 3. Compiling dictionaries: lexicography attributable
to women and alternative generic traditions; 4. Living with and working for
dictionaries: women's contributions and critique as the genre expanded; 5.
Reinventing dictionaries: the generic interventions of feminist lexicography.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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