Registro e tratamento de anglicismos no DLE: análise e delimitação de problemas

Abstract

Lexicography is a linguistic discipline that deals with the lexicon and is linked to the preparation of dictionaries (Welker, 2004). The present work was developed in the scope of the project Glossary of Metalexicography and Lexicography by professor Virgínia Sita Farias and addresses one of its main challenges, the registration and treatment of neologisms in dictionaries. Therefore, it aims to discuss the problems related to this treatment, based on Farias. To this end, the focus of this study is on a specific group of neologisms, the loanwords, more specifically, the anglicisms that have been incorporated and/or are being incorporated into Spanish. Therefore, the objective is to identify the criteria taken into account for their inclusion in the Diccionario de la Lengua Española (DLE). As methodology, a quantitative data analysis is proposed, based initially on the catalog prepared by Yáñez López (2014) and, in sequence, an analysis from the databases of the Real Academia Española (RAE), Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA) and Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI (CORPES XXI). The results show that the DLE is a selective dictionary, mainly because it presents a diachronic cut in the selection of its included lexical material. However, the presence of some neologisms in the dictionary exposes a contradiction. Thus, we conclude that the DLE does not present clear criteria for the registration of foreign words in its prologue. The presence of some neologisms in the dictionary exposes a contradiction.