Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 50 No. 1, 2024.
Original scientific paper
Ballet Terminology – Lexicographic View
Vlatka Štimac Ljubas
orcid.org/0009-0004-1671-5825
; Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, Zagreb
Abstract
In the wider sense, the dance and ballet arts share most of their terminology with the theatrical terms of drama and opera. In this paper, ballet terms are analysed, mostly in the narrower sense, from the linguistic point of view; the analysis includes the origin, composition, and structure of dance and ballet terms, taking into account lexicographic and terminographic sources, examples, and definitions. Due to the time of their creation, i.e., to the period in which they entered the Croatian language, most of the ballet terminology, mainly relating to ballet positions, had been taken from the French language. Yet this article shows that there is also a system of Croatian ballet nomenclature consisting largely of multi-word terms; most often, these terms are attributive syntagms with the adjective + noun structure.
Keywords
Croatian ballet terms; multi-word terms, adopted/borrowed terms; monolingual dictionary of the Croatian language
Hrčak ID:
316994
URI
Publication date:
8.5.2024.
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