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