America in the Diccionario de la lengua castellana of the Real Academia Española (1817-1852)

Abstract

This work analyses the presence of information related with America in the six editions of the Real Academia Española Diccionario de la lengua castellana published between 1817 and 1852 (DRAE 1817, 1822, 1832, 1837, 1843, 1852). The objective is focused on investigating the presence and evolution of this kind of information and, consequently, on discerning its treatment in the history of the Academia lexicography just before the opening of the work to the American collaboration in the second half of the 19th century.