Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21857/yvjrdcq05y

Demarcation and classification of the constituents of lexicography

Vida Vukoja ; Staroslavenski institut

Abstract

During Antiquity and Middle Ages, the concepts of science (Gr. ἐπιστήμη, Lat. scientia) and technology (Gr. τέχνη, Lat. ars) were not divorced but interwoven. On the other hand, modern-era epistemological paradigm proposed sharp demarcation of science from all the other knowledge-gaining activities, technology included. Current trends in the philosophies of science and technology seem to have rediscovered advantages of the premodern paradigm and reappropriated it. That shift provided a frame able to accomodate different aspects of lexicography within the edifice of academe, an issue that seems insolvable within the modern epistemological paradigm. As a whole, the academic discipline of lexicography seems to fit into the field of tehnology. Due to the conceptualization of tehnology in premodern-contemporary epistemological paradigm, such definition allows categorization of some lexicographical activities as scientific, namely those of the theory of lexicography and of (practical) scientific or scholarly lexicography.

Keywords

science; technology; demarcation problem; academic status of lexicography; scientific lexicography

Hrčak ID:

213226

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/213226

Publication date:

19.12.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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