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This book illuminates the significance of women and gender in English language dictionary making from the fifteenth century onward.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
Summary
This wide-ranging history of women's contributions to lexicography is aimed at readers interested in women's roles in writing, the history of English, or the practices of dictionary making. It establishes the importance of women as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics and examines how gender has affected lexicography.
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