Criterios para la diccionarización de neologismos: De la teoría a la práctica

Abstract

From its origins, lexicographical practice has always devoted some attention to the dictionarisation of neologisms, that is, to determining what makes a neologism adequate for inclusion in a dictionary. However, it has now become a research subfield in itself (Ishikawa, 2006; O’Donovan & O’Neill, 2008; Freixa, 2016; Sanmartín, 2016) which has allowed for the identification of the criteria needed to establish which units are more suitable to update a general dictionary. At the top of the list, we can find frequency and stability, although these can also appear at the end of it, without having accounted for other criteria that are important from a lexicographical, pragmatic, semantic or morphological standpoint. With the aim of polishing and narrowing down what has been suggested in previous works, this paper presents an analysis of frequent neologisms and the latest additions to the Spanish academic dictionary that incorporates different factors that have been established as indicative criteria for dictionarisation.