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1 online resource (viii, 648 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 grammars to language teaching methods and language policy |
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3.4 Women's education, the teaching of grammar and of foreign languages |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Women linguists -- History
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Linguistics -- History.
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Linguistics
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Women linguists
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ayres-Bennett, Wendy, editor.
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Sanson, Helena, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191071126 |
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0191071129 |
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