Women and Dictionary-Making

Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography

Lindsay Rose Russell (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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Cambridge University Press
23 August 2018

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.

By: Lindsay Rose Russell (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9781107187702
ISBN 10: 1107187702
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 23 August 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Lindsay Rose Russell teaches in the Department of English and The Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include histories and descriptions of the English language, rhetorical theory, genre studies, lexicography, and feminist historiography.

Reviews for Women and Dictionary-Making: Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography

'This fascinating work seeks to reclaim the often forgotten and neglected role of women in the making of dictionaries, and is a welcome addition to the scholarly literature on lexicography.' Sarah Ogilvie, Stanford University, California and author of Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary 'Russell's thorough scholarship and wide research are evidenced by densely packed in-text citations and thirty pages of references … No review of this impressive book could close without kudos to the designer, who has produced a masterpiece-simply the most beautiful cover of an academic book that I have ever come across.' Katherine J. Quigley, Language in Society