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Stereotypes and Taboo Words in Dictionaries from a Diachronic and a Synchronic Perspective – The Case Study of Croatian and Croatian Church Slavonic

The paper deals with the lexicographic treatment of derogatory and sensitive vocabulary, in particular vocabulary related to social groups, in historical and contemporary Croatian (and Croatian Church Slavonic) dictionaries. The analysis of the dictionary data, motivated by the insights into the relation between dictionaries and society, is conducted to show how dictionaries reflect the worldview of the time, explain the diachronic development of the lexicographic approach to sensitive content, and propose improvements to contemporary descriptions based on social awareness. For that purpose, the treatment of selected lexical items from the following domains is presented: male and female, sexuality and taboo, ethnicity. It is shown that there is a clear distinction in worldview and lexicographic approach between historical and contemporary dictionaries, which is facilitated by the fact that contemporary dictionaries have to balance between political correctness and the corpus. However, the examples given in this paper show that there is still room for improvement.

social stereotypes ; offensive language ; critical lexicography ; historical lexicography ; Croatian

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