Refleksja leksykograficzna w przedmowach do dawnych słowników przekładowych

• Published in: Studia z filologii polskiej i słowiańskiej 2020-01, Vol.55
• Main Author: Lenartowicz-Zagrodna, Anna
• Format: Article
• Language: pol ; ukr
• Subjects: Bilingual dictionaries; Dictionaries; History of lexicography; History of translation; Latin language; Polish language
• ISSN: 0081-7090; 2392-2435
• DOI: 10.11649/sfps.1989

This article aims to examine the scope of information included in prefaces to historical bilingual or trilingual dictionaries. An analysis of prefaces to eighteen Polish-Latin and Latin-Polish dictionaries made it possible to indicate the most frequently discussed issues: references to dictionaries by earlier authors; description of the addressee and the purpose of the dictionary, praise of the work; notes on the models on which it draws; comments on the concept and macrostructure of the dictionary; comments on the microstructure of the dictionary. As established, until the nineteenth century prefaces to such dictionaries were dominated by general comments, whereas detailed notes were not an obligatory element: they largely depended on the size of the dictionary – the more extensive the dictionary, the more details about its macro- and microstructure were discussed in the preface.