Controversies over Language Correction on the Pages of the First Dictionary of Mexicanisms Cover Image

Polémicas sobre la corrección idiomática en las páginas del primer diccionario de mexicanismos
Controversies over Language Correction on the Pages of the First Dictionary of Mexicanisms

Author(s): Ivo Buzek
Subject(s): Language studies, Lexis, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Latin American Spanish; normativity; differential lexicography; lexicographic criticism; linguistic historiography;

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to focus on topics of correct language usage that is presented in the first dictionary of Mexican Spanish, composed by a Cuban immigrant. The hypothesis is that the dictionary can offer interesting data on the contrast between Mexican and Cuban Spanish, as its author was a speaker of a different regional variety of the language. At the same time, it is interesting to see his conception of normativity related to Mexican Spanish on one hand and Academic European Spanish centered standard on the other hand, represented here by Academic dictionary and other dictionaries published by Spanish authors. Finally, it contains a debate that the author maintained with another Cuban lexicographer, that would relativize its status as the first dictionary of Mexican Spanish.

  • Issue Year: 44/2020
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 33-44
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Spanish