El humor en los inicios del discurso lexicográfico en español
- 1 Universidad de Alicante, España
ISSN: 0717-1285, 0718-5758
Datum der Publikation: 2018
Nummer: 41
Seiten: 167-184
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Onomázein: Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Zusammenfassung
Words meanings and their use in the language are not fixed in time. This is the case of the word humor, whose current meaning is new in Spanish, as it is attested in dictionaries. Lexicographic discourse can reveal enough data about the history of words. Therefore, the aim of this research is to find out the concept of humor that appears from the first papers in the Spanish lexicography, from the late fifteenth century to the early eighteenth century. Taking Covarrubias’s dictionary (1611) as a turning point, a corpus of dictionaries has been compiled to do research on how the subject of humor was treated by the selection of voices related to it. The results are sufficiently clear in respect to the prudence with which this subject was conceived, as well as to its pragmatically marked use.