Ke kritice Slovníku současné češtiny

• Authors: František Martínek

Title variants

EN

On the critique of the Dictionary of Contemporary Czech

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The text is a reaction to Anna Čermáková’s critical discussion of the Dictionary of Contemporary Czech (Slovník současné češtiny) published in Slovo a slovesnost (74, 2013, no. 3). I also have a critical opinion of this dictionary (we both document significant dependence of the Slovník současné češtiny on previous dictionaries, for example). My criticism, however, is mainly based on different arguments. I would like to confront these with the ones presented by Čermáková, and thus contribute to the debate on (meta)lexicography. My remarks concern the macrostructure of the dictionary, the structure and formulation of lexicographic definitions, detailed lexicographic principles, and the possibilities of using corpus data to make a dictionary. Among other things, I argue that the word frequency as acquired from language corpora cannot be the only criterion for compiling a list of lexemes. Furthermore, I agree with some of the dictionary’s solutions to lexicographic issues which were criticized by Čermáková. I also show that there are lexicographic principles mentioned in Čermáková’s paper which are not upheld elsewhere in her text. Finally, I suggest understanding the criticized prescriptive orientation of this dictionary as a reaction to the anticipated needs of dictionary users.

Keywords

CS

česká lexikografie; jednojazyčný výkladový slovník; výstavba hesla; slovníková definice; lexikální sémantika

EN

Czech lexicography; monolingual dictionary; structure of dictionary entries; lexicographic definition; lexical semantics

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 77
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 60-69
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

František Martínek

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic