The present paper explores the topic of authorial dictionaries – a subject rarely discussed in Czech academic discourse. The aim of the study is to present several forms of authorial dictionaries, focusing mainly on current and up-to-date methods. At the beginning, the study explores two viewpoints (J. Mattausch and H. E. Wiegand) of the taxonomy of authorial dictionaries, of which the second is subjected to slightly stronger criticism. The article also looks at the development of this special lexicographical discipline. Finally, the paper mentions future perspectives of modern corpus devices in the sphere of authorial lexicography.
The study presents a model for a dictionary based on the work of Jan Čep in the context of Czech authorial dictionaries and quantitative research on fiction texts. Designed to make a functional link between perspectives from linguistics and literary criticism perspectives, the dictionary with its conception, purposes and type is a part of the development of Czech authorial lexicography. It is the first project of its kind among frequency author-based dictionary that is aimed at providing tools for literary criticism to pre-interpret literary texts in a functional, objectivized way. The dictionary, however, is not (and cannot be) a substitute for the actual critical analysis of literary texts.
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