Publication details
Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny
| Title in English | New Encyclopaedia of Czech |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | This book is a result of work of 191 authors. The team was lead by Petr Karlík, Marek Nekula and Jana Pleskalová. The publication is a succesor Encyklopedický slovník češtiny (NLN, 2002) and its goals. The range, content and form of individual entries and the encylopedia as a whole is however considerably wider. A feature both of these dictionaries have common undoubtedly that they both aim to sum up and interpret the key issues of structure, functions and diachronic aspect of the Czech language and its description. They also take into consideration both spoken and written Czech and its varieties. Thematically, Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny covers all of the main branches of czech studies from the linguistic point of view language part of Bohemistics, the traditional one and the contemporary one. The dictionary proceeds from those theoretical frameworks that found response in Czech studies and Slavonic studies as carried out in the Czech republic and abroad. Nonetheless, it does not only address experts in Czech studies but philologists in general and it opens up to other fields as well, especially in the parts that deal with universal phenomena or interdisciplinary links of the field. |
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