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Women and dictionary-making : gender, genre, and English language lexicography / Lindsay Rose Russell.

By: Description: xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107187702 (hardcover)
  • 9781316638194
Other title:
  • Gender, genre, and English language lexicography
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 423.082 23 R961
LOC classification:
  • PE1611 .R87 2018
Other classification:
  • LAN009000
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-245) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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