Malyshev, A. A. GLOSSING VS. INTRA TEXT INTERPRETATION OF LEXICON: TERMINOLOGICAL COMMON GROUND IN CASE OF THE TEXTS OF THE 18TH CENTURY // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 1 (178). P. 74–79. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.275


Linguistics

GLOSSING VS. INTRA TEXT INTERPRETATION OF LEXICON: TERMINOLOGICAL COMMON GROUND IN CASE OF THE TEXTS OF THE 18TH CENTURY

Malyshev
A. A. 		St. Petersburg State University
Keywords:
gloss
interpretation of lexicon
historical lexicology
historical stylistics
terminology
scientific tradition
Russian language of the 18th century		 Summary: The intra text interpretation of lexicon in texts of the 18th century inevitably needs a terminological designation of this phenomenon. There are two directions which differ from each other in the use or non-use of the term “gloss” by the description of these cases of the explanation of lexicon. The tradition of understanding of a gloss as way of the explanation of some words especially in handwritten texts relies on the definition of a gloss which is going back to antiquity. This way glossing becomes the integral element of hand-written tradition, and glosses of hand-written texts become an important source of historical studying of language. In this case the problem of glossing is considered only on the material of hand-written texts. Other researchers understand glossing widely as the interpretation of unknown or little-used words and expressions made not only by hand in the manuscript, but also by the typographical way in the text of the printed book, carrying such explanations to the most widespread type of explanations of lexicon in texts of later time, including and in texts of the 18th century. It basically appears to consider an assumption as a gloss by any explanation introduced in the text independent of its hand-written or printing nature. Therefore in case of entering the explanations to the “difficult” words into the printed texts of the 18-th century we can say about the existence in the text even not glosses, then glossing as a process in general.



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