L'apport des dictionnaires dans une recherche sémantique, l'exemple du Trésor

• Authors: Bon Bruno , Guerreau-Jalabert Anita

Title variants

EN

THE USE OF DICTIONARIES IN THE SEMANTIC RESEARCH: THE CASE OF ´TREASURE´

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

Any research on the vocabulary of medieval languages can rest on dictionaries since they offer an organized material with examples: their transfer on digital device increased their value by raising new questions in chronological or onomasiological terms. However, we should also admit its limits and weaknesses: within the framework of a semantic study, their consulting should not dispense with a systematic and thorough investigation into the texts, which is made easier and more fruitful thanks to the digitalised corpora. The analysis we have carried out about the notion of treasure in the Middle Ages from the observation of contextual uses of the words 'thesaurus' and 'tresor' has led us to make sure that the conditions to write the dictionaries do not always allow the editors to avoid anachronisms and that, besides, the lexicographical entries do not provide a satisfactory framework to give an in-depth account of a complex semantic system.

Keywords

EN

'THESAURUS'; LEXICOGRAPHY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 85-101
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bon Bruno

author

Guerreau-Jalabert Anita

• Bruno Bon, Institut de France, Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 23, Quai de Conti, 75270 Paris Cedex O6, France

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA05655