Homosexuality in Czech and Bulgarian Lexicographic Description from the Socialist Period

Iliana Genew-Puhalewa, Milena Hebal-Jezierska

Abstract:

The article is devoted to vocabulary and expressions referring to homosexuality,used in dictionary and encyclopedic entries. The material analyzed was that in-cluded in Czechoslovak and Bulgarian lexicographic resources published in thesocialist era. The research focused on relations between hyperonymous and syn-onymic terms as well as systems of references used in the dictionaries and ency-clopedias examined. For the sake of analysis, the authors distinguish four types ofcategorization applied to homosexual people according to the following values:1) vital, 2) moral, 3) affective, and 4) utilitarian. These categories actualize spe-cific underlying (cognitive) informal and/or expert domains. It was concludedthat the key cognitive operation, i.e. that of referring phenomena and their namesto a specific norm, is not only time-dependent and informed by state-of-the-artknowledge or available information in a given society, but also dependent of thecurrent political regime and its governing methods.

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