Abstract

VIDAL DIEZ, MÓNICA. ROGET VS. BENOT: THE DICCIONARIO DE IDEAS AFINES IN LIGHT OF ITS PREDECESSOR. Lingüística [online]. 2014, vol.30, n.1, pp.31-60. ISSN 2079-312X.

This paper is a contrastive study between the Diccionario de ideas afines (1899) directed by Eduardo Benot and the Thesaurus of English words and phrases (1852) by Peter Mark Roget. To that end we have compared the purposes of both works, the disposition of the ideological classification of the categories and the contents of their prologues, as well as some terms, in order to underline similarities and differences between the two dictionaries. A second objective is to restore the figure of Benot and rehabilitate the work done in the Diccionario, work that has sometimes been criticized as “deeply flawed work and unhelpful”. The analysis will allow us to affirm the importance of the work, fifty years before the appearance of the Diccionario ideológico de la lengua española by Julio Casares

Keywords : lexicography; historical lexicography; linguistic historiography.

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