Da prática significante lexicográfica

Abstract

Though dictionaires hold the appearance of lexical catalogues, they are constituted as texts with their own rules for the production of meaning. As such, they take the value of a didactic discourse that under the appearance of neutrality, exert strong influence on society’s linguistic behaviors. In order to bring to light the non-neutrality (absence of neutrality) of the lexicographical discourse, the author undertakes an analysis of the entry woman in a set of dictionaires of Portuguese language from a point of view that conceives this semantic microcosm as a place of tension between the individual and the collective.