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Placed at the interface between metalexicography and gender studies, this short article discusses issues concerning gender representations in present-day dictionaries. Evoking recent controversies regarding the representation of gender-related terms such as “cisgender” or “woman” in The Oxford English Dictionary, the essay goes on to discuss the prescriptive/descriptive opposition concerning lexicographical representations, taking its cue from previous approaches, which suggest re-envisaging the prescriptive/descriptive dyad as a continuum (Straaijer, 2009; Wilton 2014), or replacing this traditional binary model with a nonbinary approach (Nossem, 2018; Turton, 2020).

On Dictionaries and Gender Representations

Gender Studies

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Placed at the interface between metalexicography and gender studies, this short article discusses issues concerning gender representations in present-day...

On Dictionaries and Gender Representations

Published Online: Dec 27, 2021

Page range: 149 - 153

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2022-0010

Keywords
dictionary, metalexicography, gender representations, prescriptive, descriptive, normativity

© 2021 Ruxandra Vişan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

On Dictionaries and Gender Representations

Published Online: Dec 27, 2021

Page range: 149 - 153

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2022-0010

Keywordsdictionary, metalexicography, gender representations, prescriptive, descriptive, normativity

© 2021 Ruxandra Vişan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
dictionary, metalexicography, gender representations, prescriptive, descriptive, normativity