Homosexuality in Czech and Bulgarian lexicographic description from the socialist period

Iliana Genew-Puhalewa; Milena Hebal-Jezierska

doi:10.32798/zl.1296

Published: 2023-12-28

Vol. 59 No. 1 (2023)

Homosexuality in Czech and Bulgarian lexicographic description from the socialist period

Iliana Genew-Puhalewa , Milena Hebal-Jezierska

Zeszyty Łużyckie

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https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.1296

Abstract

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

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minority, homosexuality, categorization, Bulgarian dictionary, Czech dictionary, repression, communist ideology, communist dictionaries

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Genew-Puhalewa, I., & Hebal-Jezierska, M. (2023). Homosexuality in Czech and Bulgarian lexicographic description from the socialist period. Zeszyty Łużyckie, 59(1), 189–212. https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.1296

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Iliana Genew-Puhalewa

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1780-166X

Affiliation:

University of Warsaw, Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies Poland

Bio Statement:

Iliana Genew–Puhalewa, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw. Her main areas of interest are contrastive and applied linguistics, terminology studies, ethnolinguistics, and axio-linguistics.

Milena Hebal-Jezierska

m.hebal-jezierska@uw.edu.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6325-3545

Affiliation:

University of Warsaw, Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies Poland

Bio Statement:

Milena Hebal–Jezierska, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw. Her main research focus is on contrastive and corpus linguistics.