News about the project for the elaboration of the “Digital lexical repertoire of Spanish-Portuguese doubts” in the historical-contrasting perspective

Abstract

In the present work, we report, problematizing them, the guiding parameters of the project entitled “Digital electronic lexicon of doubts at the interfaces between Spanish and Portuguese languages”, which aims to elaborate and implement a Spanish-Portuguese doubts dictionary that includes characteristics that do not exist to date. In this sense, the entries, far from the onomasiological characteristics or lexical equivalents that, in general, present the bilingual dictionaries, will offer semasiological information regarding both the meaning of the slogans and any other linguistic elements, whether of phonic, morphosyntactic or pragmatic character, leading to the resolution of the user’s eventual doubt. We will revisit the areas of contrasting linguistics and historical linguistics in the elaboration of articles, which will allow us to offer, in addition to a panoramic view of the question, an answer focused on why the phenomenon-and not just on the mere description of a fact-, an inexcusable purpose of any scientific approach to its object of study. Interdisciplinary teams of professors, technicians, and students from the Federal University of Pernambuco and the University of Salamanca (Spain) will implement the project. There is currently no similar publication that presents the listed information at the same time. In turn, digital support represents the future of lexicographic publications, since it guarantees universal and free accessibility, facilitates its use by consulting subjects, opening the range of possibilities that the paper format prevented. The project on-screen will highlight the studies in Applied Linguistics (Lexicography, Language Teaching, and Learning), in Historical Linguistics and in Contrasting Linguistics carried out in Brazil by the repercussions, in terms of their internationalization, in view of the direct collaboration in this project of the University of Salamanca (Spain), a world reference institution for teaching Spanish to foreigners for decades.