Lexicography and gender - Gender-specific exclusion in historical and contemporary German language dictionaries Lexikographie und Gender - geschlechts-spezifische Ausgrenzung in historischen und gegenwartsbezogenen Wörterbüchern des Deutschen

Blanck W, Moshövel A (2022)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2022

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Book Volume: 38

Pages Range: 307-362

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1515/lex-2022-0011

Abstract

Dictionaries have always been an important part in shaping our construction of the world and its language(s), also as concerns the concepts and presentation of gender. In this regard, dictionaries can be means of exclusion in terms of gender. This contribution examines a number of historical and contemporary German general-language dictionaries (print and online) to find out about gender concepts and attributions that have been made in the German lexicographic tradition from the 16th to the 21st century. Among others, it deals with the specific contextualization of gender constructs with regard to potentially communicative ingroup/outgroup relations in historical lexicography and poses the question if and how gender-specific stereotyping can be overcome in contemporary lexicography.

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Blanck, W., & Moshövel, A. (2022). Lexicography and gender - Gender-specific exclusion in historical and contemporary German language dictionaries Lexikographie und Gender - geschlechts-spezifische Ausgrenzung in historischen und gegenwartsbezogenen Wörterbüchern des Deutschen. Lexicographica, 38(1), 307-362. https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lex-2022-0011

MLA:

Blanck, Wiebke, and Andrea Moshövel. "Lexicography and gender - Gender-specific exclusion in historical and contemporary German language dictionaries Lexikographie und Gender - geschlechts-spezifische Ausgrenzung in historischen und gegenwartsbezogenen Wörterbüchern des Deutschen." Lexicographica 38.1 (2022): 307-362.

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