Women in the History of Linguistics by Wendy Ayres-Bennett

Women in the History of Linguistics by Wendy Ayres-Bennett

Women in the History of Linguistics is a ground-breaking investigation into women's contribution to the description, analysis, and codification of languages across a wide range of different linguistic and cultural traditions. Notably, the volume looks beyond Europe to Africa, Australia, Asia, and North America, offering a systematic and comparative approach to a subject that has not yet received the scholarly attention it deserves. In view of women's often limited educational opportunities in the past, their impact is examined not only within traditional and institutional contexts, but also in more domestic and less public realms. The chapters explore a variety of spheres of activity, including the production of grammars, dictionaries, philological studies, critical editions, and notes and reflections on the nature of language and writing systems, as well as women's contribution to the documentation and maintenance of indigenous languages, language teaching and acquisition methods, language debates, and language use and policy. Attitudes towards women's language-both positive and negative-that regularly shape linguistic description and analysis are explored, alongside metalinguistic texts specifically addressed to them as readers. Women in the History of Linguistics is intended for all scholars and students interested in the history of linguistics, women's studies, social and cultural history, and the intersection between language and gender

The volume edited by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Helena Sanson, Women in the History of Linguistics, is a gift that we cannot fail to take advantage of in order to correct our history, thus making it richer and more diverse* Manuel Alcántara-Plá, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid *
Women in the History of Linguistics is an impressive work of scholarship from which I have no doubt many future scholars will benefit. [...] I hope [it] will find a place in every linguistics library. * Deborah Cameron, Journal of Sociolinguistics *
The nineteen carefully researched chapters in this ground-breaking edited volume outline women's contributions to the history of linguistics across a broad range of different languages and cultural traditions [...]. The scope and extent of the volume is a formidable achievement, given the many challenges faced by researchers aiming to discover women's activity in the history of linguistics, including the difficulty of finding existing evidence of this activity. It is the first work to examine – in a detailed and systematic way – the contribution that women have made to linguistics in both European and non-European traditions. * Olivia Walsh, Language and History *

Wendy Ayres-Bennett is Professor of French Philology and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. She specializes in the history of French and the history of linguistic thought, focusing primarily on questions of standardization and codification, linguistic ideology and policy, and variation and change, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Her major publications include Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-century France: Methodology and Case Studies (CUP, 2004), as well as critical editions of key texts in the history of the codification of French. She has led an international research project on the genre of observations on the French language and a flagship interdisciplinary research programme promoting the value of languages for key issues of our time (Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies). Helena Sanson is Professor of Italian, History of Linguistics, and Women's Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her interdisciplinary research brings together the history of linguistic thought and the history of women. She has published extensively in both fields. Among her main publications are Donne, precettistica e lingua nell'Italia del Cinquecento (Accademia della Crusca, 2007), Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900 (British Academy/OUP, 2011), and Conduct Literature for and about Women in Italy, 1470-1900: Describing and Prescribing Life, co-edited with Francesco Lucioli (Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2016), as well as a number of critical editions of early modern conduct literature texts for women. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the book series Women and Gender in Italy 1500-1900 (Éditions Classiques Garnier), and the peer-reviewed journal Women Language Literature in Italy/Donne Lingua Letteratura in Italia.

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ISBN 13	9780198754954
ISBN 10	0198754957
Title	Women in the History of Linguistics
Author	Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2020-12-31
Number of pages	672
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