Social and political vocabulary in successive editions
of S. I. Ozhegov’s Russian Language D ictionary Cover Image

Leksyka społeczno-polityczna w kolejnych wydaniach ,,Słownika języka rosyjskiego " Siergieja I. Ożegowa
Social and political vocabulary in successive editions of S. I. Ozhegov’s Russian Language D ictionary

Author(s): Jan Sosnowski
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: social vocabulary; political vocabulary

Summary/Abstract: S. I. Ozhegov’s Dictionary, since its first edition in 1949, has been appearing in successiveeditions from the Soviet times to recent post-Soviet reality. Since 1992 it is co-authored byN. Y. Shvedova. The article compares several entries related to social and political affairs, collectedfrom the principal editions of the Dictionary. The analyzed entries include the followinglexemes: democracy, capitalism, communism, socialism, party, trade union. The main goal of thearticle is to show the evolution of the respective entries and to characterize the crucial differencesbetween yarious editions.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: VIII
  • Page Range: 59-70
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish