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Quebec Lexicographical Tradition of the 18th–19th Centuries |
| Authors |
Razumova L.V. Candidate of Philology, associate professor, lina.razumova@mail.ru |
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World Philology |
| UDK |
811.133.1 |
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| Annotation |
The paper reviews the development of Quebec lexicography in the 18th–19th centuries analyzing
Quebec lexicographic works which are practically unknown to Russian scientists in lexical variation
studies. The article offers a general linguistic characteristic of the works, namely description of their
volume and structure, analysis of the methods to present word entries, comparison of registered
examples of the French language contacts with the languages of the autochthonic American Indian
population and with the English language. Special attention is paid to the approaches of various
Quebec authors to the description of Quebec word usage of the considered period (prescriptive/
descriptive ideologies). The author of the article characterizes the social context of the discussed
lexicographic works. The article outlines scientific reflection formation in the field of language
norm in Quebec variant of the French language.
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| Key words |
Quebec variant of the French language, unified word usage, normalization language
processes, dialecticisms, meaning formation processes, language marginalization, descriptive/
prescriptive approaches in language description. |
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