Lexical-semantic field of Galego in European Portuguese dictionaries. Contributions to the analysis of the image of Galicia in Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Guillermo Vidal
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Sanromán, Álvaro Iriarte, Pazos-Justo, Carlos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.21814/diacritica.5396
• topic: Dictionaries; Galician; European Portuguese; Lexicon; Galician image; Dicionários; Galego; Português europeu; Léxico; Imagem da Galiza

In the Portuguese collective worldview, the word galego is not only limited to designating, as a gentilic, the inhabitants of neighbouring Galicia or aspects related to it. Since the 20th century, different researchers have been analysing different meanings of the term and its associated cultural values in Portugal. This paper aims to contribute to that analysis with the novelty of examining the definitions of meanings belonging to the galego lexical field in a cast of Portuguese dictionaries from the 16th century to the present day. Under this premise, collecting information contained in each entry and elaborating frequency tables, the lexical and semantic field of galego will be analysed. This will allow us to observe the evolution of meanings over the centuries and, in turn, identify the pejorative or negative connotations of the term in Portugal, as well as to make evident the bias of some dictionaries in the use of lexicographical marks.