FOR THE HISTORY OF THE LEXICAL AMERICANISM IN THE DICTIONARIES OF THE SPANISH

Authors

  • Dolores Azorín Fernández
Keywords: Vicente Salvá, Spanish Royal Academy, lexical americanism, dictionary, Spanish, lexicography.

Abstract

The history of Americanisms in general dictionaries represents an important chapter of Spanish lexicography, still pending to be shaped. With the present work we aim to contribute to the knowledge of the beginning of the thinking on metalexicographical thought on this issue, through Vicente Salvá’s research. He was one of the first scholars in assuming the problem in the theoretical level and putting it into the practical level in his work Nuevo Diccionario de la Lengua Castellana (New Dictionary of Castillian Language), 1846. Salvá was ahead of the Real Academia Española (Spanish Royal Academy) as he carried out the first systematic collection of Americanisms known in the history of Spanish, using a rigorous method which shows that he had a surprisingly modern conception of the diatopic varieties of Spanish.

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Author Biography

Dolores Azorín Fernández

Dpto. de Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura. Universidad de Alicante.
How to Cite
Azorín Fernández, D. (2008). FOR THE HISTORY OF THE LEXICAL AMERICANISM IN THE DICTIONARIES OF THE SPANISH. Journal of Linguistic Research, 11, 13–44. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/ril/article/view/53661