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

妇女与词典编纂：性别、类型与英语词典编纂

Cambridge University Press Lindsay Rose Russell

ISBN：9781316638194，出版年：2018，中图分类号：H31 被引 4次

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.

Rhetorical question Fifteenth Craft Ideology Linguistics History English language Lexicography Social life

Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots -- The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language

苏格兰贾米森词典：第一部苏格兰语历史词典的故事

Oxford University Press Rennie, Susan

ISBN：9780199639403，出版年：2012，中图分类号：H3 被引 9次

John Jamiesonâs Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1808) was the first complete dictionary of Scots and is a landmark in the development of historical lexicography. This book is the first fullâscale study of Jamiesonâs work on both the Dictionary and the later Supplement of 1825. Using Jamiesonâs correspondence and surviving manuscript sources, it traces the evolution of the Dictionary project, from Jamiesonâs early linguistic fieldwork to the production and promotion of the Dictionary over twenty years later. It discusses Jamiesonâs editorial methods and examines in detail the content of the Dictionary, highlighting Jamiesonâs pioneering of the historical method, as well as his innovative use of contemporary and popular sources. It also reveals how Jamieson continually revised and updated his text, aided by a growing number of contributors and specialist consultants â among them Sir Walter Scott â and describes how his work was supplemented by later editors, ensuring that the Dictionary dominated Scots lexicography for over a century, providing inspiration to generations of creative writers, as well as source material for the major historical dictionaries of English and Scots that were to follow.

Etymological dictionary Scots Historical method Classics Literature History Promotion (chess) Lexicography Scottish language Source material