Original scientific paper
Social and Political Conditionality of Lexicographic Articles: Case Study of the Article Entitled European Union
Dario Čepo
; The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography, Zagreb
Abstract
The objective of this article is to address the issue of factual accuracy and value neutrality in lexicographic articles. Taking as a case in point the article entitled European Union, an effort will be made to demonstrate a different approach to its explication depending on the social and political situation in the state where the encyclopaedia was published, and its ideological underlying concept. An attempt will be made to produce results by analysing a number of international and regional encyclopaedias and lexicons, including all general encyclopedias published by the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographic Institute. The article will try to demonstrate the connection between the social and political conditions in a certain state regarding the issues which are being studied, and the way in which these issues have been dealt with in the representative lexicographic and encyclopaedic works.
Keywords
encyclopaedias; ideology; European Union; lexicographic article; conditionality
Hrčak ID:
110748
URI
Publication date:
15.2.2008.
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