Publication details
El gitano en el DRAE-1884
| Title in English | Gypsies in the 1884 ed. of Roya Spanish Academy dictionary |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In the history of the evolution of the dictionary of the Real Academia Espanola we can perceive that the changes in its macrostructure and microstructure sometimes have a form of sinusoidal curves or waves, since as we pay attention to certain phenomena, we see that there can be editions with hardly any changes followed by others in which the quantitative increase of entries or meanings and the qualitative amendments are considerable. In the present communication, we will pay attention to the edition of the DRAE-1884, one of the most innovative editions of the entire 19th century, as has been proven by several works (Blanco Izquierdo and Clavería Nadal, eds., 2021, among others). However, in the studies on the DRAE-1884, there are still gaps in knowledge that attract attention. One of them is the diaphasic and diastratically marked lexicon, here exemplified in the plot of voices of gypsy origin, marked in the dictionary as “Del caló”. At first glance, this may appear to be a note on etymology-another prominent theme of that edition-but if we look at it more closely, we see that it encloses at the same time a marking of the register of usage (Buzek 2013). As the DRAE-1884 was the first edition of the DRAE with a significant entry of the lexicon of Gypsy origin, we will be interested in its scope of use, i.e., whether it joins with other tags and to which subject areas Gypsyisms belonged at that time according to the DRAE-1884. At the same time, we will try to provide contemporary textual documentation in order to corroborate to what extent the lexicographical treatment corresponded to the reality of the time. |
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