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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Russell, Lindsay Rose (1980-....)
Titre(s) : Women and dictionary making [Texte imprimé] : gender, genre, and English language lexicography / Lindsay Rose Russell
Publication : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge university press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-252 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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" ; "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"
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Gender, genre, and English language lexicography
Sujet(s) : Anglais (langue) -- Lexicographie -- Histoire
Dictionnaires -- Histoire
Études sur le genre -- Lexicographie
Rôle selon le sexe -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107187702. - ISBN 1107187702. - ISBN 9781316953549 (erroné) (PDF ebook).
- ISBN 9781316941553 (erroné) (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45646287x
Notice n° :
FRBNF45646287
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Walking dictionary, sleeping dictionary : toward a gendered history of a rhetorical
genre ; Patronizing dictionaries : invocations of women at the invention of the
genre ; Compiling dictionaries : lexicography attributable to women and alternative
generic traditions ; Living with and working for dictionaries : women's contributions
and critique as the genre expanded ; Reinventing dictionaries : the generic interventions
of feminist lexicography ; Conclusion: Waking dictionaries : reimagining the genre
in light of a gendered past.
