TY - JOUR
T1 - This Is What a Dictionary Looks Like
T2 - The Lexicographical Contributions of Feminist Dictionaries
AU - Russell, Lindsay Rose
N1 - Funding Information:
At other times, disclosures of the circumstances of production are focused on highlighting structural and economic obstacles to the work, as in Kramarae and Triechler’s opening to A Feminist Dictionary: we did not undertake this dictionary as a lifelong project and thus had to limit what we could do. [...] though many dictionaries are funded by continuing financial support from publishers, academic societies, or national governments, the feminist dictionary project is not thus institutionalized. (1985: 19) This reflection on their project clearly situates the dictionary makers within scholarly and commercial settings that are not without biases of their own.
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - Feminist dictionaries published between 1970 and 2006 have received little attention in the world of lexicography. The aim of this article is to establish feminist dictionaries as ambitious revisions of lexicographical theory and practice worthy of historical documentation and contemporary consideration. Feminist dictionaries are shown to propose a form of lexicography that (1) foregrounds the material and personal circumstances of dictionary production, (2) fosters active, opinionated, and exploratory dictionary consumption, and (3) highlights meaning as contextual, contested, personal, and perspectival. This article suggests that remembering and reviving the lexicographical priorities of feminist dictionaries is valuable for telling the history and imagining the future of the dictionary genre.
AB - Feminist dictionaries published between 1970 and 2006 have received little attention in the world of lexicography. The aim of this article is to establish feminist dictionaries as ambitious revisions of lexicographical theory and practice worthy of historical documentation and contemporary consideration. Feminist dictionaries are shown to propose a form of lexicography that (1) foregrounds the material and personal circumstances of dictionary production, (2) fosters active, opinionated, and exploratory dictionary consumption, and (3) highlights meaning as contextual, contested, personal, and perspectival. This article suggests that remembering and reviving the lexicographical priorities of feminist dictionaries is valuable for telling the history and imagining the future of the dictionary genre.
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U2 - 10.1093/ijl/ecr013
DO - 10.1093/ijl/ecr013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84858225382
SN - 0950-3846
VL - 25
SP - 1
EP - 29
JO - International Journal of Lexicography
JF - International Journal of Lexicography
IS - 1
ER -