Women in the history of linguistics

Women in the history of linguistics / edited by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Helena Sanson.

This volume offers a ground-breaking investigation into women's contribution to the description, analysis, and codification of languages across a wide range of linguistic and cultural traditions. The chapters explore a variety of spheres of activity, from the production of dictionaries and gram...

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Other Authors: Ayres-Bennett, Wendy (Editor), Sanson, Helena (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Women linguists > History.
Linguistics > History.
Linguistics
Women linguists
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Women in the History of Linguistics
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • The contributors
  • Women in the history of linguistics: Distant and neglected voices
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous studies of women in the history of linguistics
  • 3. Why are women so little represented in classic works on the history of linguistics?
  • 4. Challenges and opportunities for women in the history of linguistics
  • 5. Moving beyond the European and the Western
  • 6. Chronological scope of the volume
  • 7. Recurring themes
  • 7.1 Women's language
  • 7.2 Women and language acquisition and teaching
  • 7.3 Women as creators of new languages and scripts
  • 7.4 Women as dedicatees, patrons, and intended readers of metalinguistics texts
  • 7.5 Women as authors of metalinguistic texts
  • 7.6 Women as interpreters and translators
  • 7.7 The role of women in language documentation, preservation, and folklore
  • 7.8 Women supporting male relatives and colleagues
  • 7.9 Women breaking into institutionalized contexts
  • 8. Future perspectives
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1: Visible and invisible women in ancient linguistic culture
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Education in Archaic (700-500 ...) and Classical (480-330 ...) Greece
  • 1.3 Women poets from Archaic and early Classical Greece
  • 1.4 Pythagorean women philosophers
  • 1.5 Women in Plato's philosophical circle
  • 1.6 Hellenistic philosophers and learned women (330-27 ...)
  • 1.7 Women's literacy and education in the Hellenistic period
  • 1.8 Language arts: Philology
  • 1.9 Women teachers and grammarians in Hellenistic times
  • 1.10 Language arts and education in Rome
  • 1.11 Schools of grammar and rhetoric in Rome
  • 1.12 Women's virtues
  • 1.13 Standard prejudices towards learned women
  • 1.14 Women philosophers in late antiquity
  • 1.15 Conclusion
  • 2: Women and language codification in Italy: Marginalized voices, forgotten contributions
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • 2.2.1 Ideas about language use
  • 2.2.2 Women, the literary language, and its grammar
  • 2.2.3 Women translators
  • 2.3 The eighteenth century
  • 2.3.1 Ideas on women's language
  • 2.3.2 Women and grammar production
  • 2.3.3 Translation as scholarship
  • 2.4 The nineteenth century and the post-Unification period
  • 2.4.1 Women as 'teachers' of Italian
  • 2.4.2 Women as grammarians
  • 2.4.3 Women as collectors and scholars of language
  • 2.4.4 Women and lexicography
  • 2.4.5 Women and the academies: Official recognition
  • 2.5 Concluding remarks
  • 3: Women as authors, audience, and authorities in the French tradition
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Metalinguistic texts
  • 3.2.1 Women as authors of metalinguistic texts
  • 3.2.2 Women as dedicatees of metalinguistic texts
  • 3.2.3 Women as the intended audience of metalinguistic texts
  • 3.3 Women as translators of literary or scientific texts

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