The pragmatic component in dictionaries: Implications for lexicography

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.201401.001
Keywords: Pragmatic linguistics, ludic function, humor

Abstract

This paper examines, including humor, the ludic function of language, which is faced dialectically with the referential function. Both are given the same importance, even though the latter is cognitively prior (Calvo 1994), so that there is no theoretical discrimination between what is purely ludic and linguistic of the joke or other styles of humor, and what is literature and the creation of worlds and characters through it. The humorous work par excellence: The Quixote is taken as an example. It is assumed at the same time that everything is humor whenever the sender and receiver agree with this, and the context is suitable: «The landlord, who, as has been mentioned, was something of a wag, and had already some suspicion of his guest’s want of wits, was quite convinced of it on hearing talk of this kind from him, and to make sport for the night he determined to fall in with his humour» (ch. 3, first part).

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Author Biography

Julio Calvo Pérez, Academia Peruana de la Lengua

Es el Director Técnico del proyecto de la APL conocido como DiPerú, que elabora el primer diccionario académico de nuestro país. Sus antecedentes lexicográficos son Sebastián de Covarrubias o la fresca instilación de las palabras. Cuenca, 1991; La cocina peruana. Análisis semántico del léxico de la cocina en lengua quechua. Lima, Universidad San Martín de Porres, 2005; Tendiendo puentes: El habla de los emigrantes peruanos (y ecuatorianos) en la comunidad Valenciana. Valencia, Universitat de València, 2007; el Nuevo Diccionario español-quechua, quechua-español, en cinco volúmenes, publicado por la Universidad de “San Martín de Porres”, 2009 y, últimamente con Henrique Urbano (eds.): Lexicón o Vocabulario de la lengua general del Perú, compuesto por el Maestro Fray Domingo de Santo Thomas de la orden de Santo Domingo. Edición crítica. Lima, Universidad “San Martín de Porres”, 2013. A ello se unen hasta una veintena más de artículos científicos sobre el tema. Es Miembro Correspondiente de la APL y ha sido nombrado profesor “Honoris Causa” por la Universidad “Ricardo Palma” de Lima por los méritos alcanzados en sus investigaciones lingüísticas sobre el Perú

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2014-06-30
How to Cite
Calvo Pérez, J. (2014). The pragmatic component in dictionaries: Implications for lexicography. Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 57(57), 13-29. https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.201401.001
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No 57 (2014): Enero - Junio
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