RAZDVAJANJE LEKSIKOGRAFSKIH I ENCIKLOPEDIJSKIH INFORMACIJA U VUKOVSKOJ TRADICIJI
SEPARATION OF ENCYCLOPEDIC AND LEXICOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION IN LEXICOGRAPHIC TRADITION ESTABLISHED BY VUK STEFANOVIĆ KARADŽIĆ

Author(s): Danko Šipka
Subject(s): Language studies, Lexis, Historical Linguistics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: lexicographic procedure; encyclopedic information; Vuk Karadžić; South Slavic lexicography; history of lexicography;
Summary/Abstract: The present paper discusses encyclopedic and other non-lexicographical information in the first edition of the Serbian Dictionary by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Karadžić, 1818). The paper discusses the volume and the nature of such information. It furthermore explores the faith of these information in a series of dictionaries that continue the tradition established by the aforementioned Karadžić’s dictionary (i.e. Karadžić 1852, JAZU 1880-1976, САНУ 1959-, RMS 1967-1976, RSJ 2011). The paper also addresses the place of these non-lexicographic information in the present-day publications and how they gradually disappeared from the dictionaries. The corpus of non-lexicographic elements in Karadžić, 1818 encompassed only the information that would today not be considered a legitimate part of the dictionary macrostructure. This excludes various other phenomena, e.g., folk songs as examples, which would, according to good lexicographic practice of today be considered too long or dysfunctional, long-winded, and dysfunctional definitions, etc. (but still legitimate parts of the microstructure). The analysis reveals that the major turning point where non-lexicographical information start to be abandoned was JAZU 1880-1976, although some of these information can be found in later dictionaries. It has also been demonstrated that in today’s publishing practice, these information would be found in most diverse sources, from encyclopedias, to ethnographic prose to newspapers and magazines. The separation of encyclopedic from lexicographical information is seen as a consequence of the changes in establishing authority in dictionaries.

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