Reflexiones acerca de la clasificación de las obras lexicográficas (semi)bilingües para el aprendizaje de lenguas

Reflections on the classification of (semi) bilingual lexicographic works for language learning

Abstract

(Semi)bilingual lexicographic works are hybrid repertoires that merge features of bilingual and monolingual dictionaries. For this reason, metalexicography understands such lexicographic works as complex products and, under this designation, there are dictionaries of very different characteristics, which results in the fact that these works have been very little researched and produced. Both the concept and the designation of (semi)bilingual dictionaries are very varied, so this study conceives them as a new subtype of interlingual lexicographic work. In this context, the classification principles that describe these lexicographic works have not been satisfactorily established. Because of that, we propose a reflection on them from a taxonomic proposal to printed dictionaries. The difficulty of elaborating a classification proposal for (semi)bilingual works lies in the combination of linguistic, historical and cultural criteria, besides the fact that existing works systematically present a combination of traces of different dictionaries. Even so, the importance of the elaboration of classification principles for (semi)bilingual dictionaries is defended because it is understood that it can provide knowledge that refines the principles of the compilation of these lexicographic works and improves their linguistic and lexicographic quality.