Hladká, Z. – Martincová, O.: Words in private personal letters. A probe into lexicography. Brno: MU 2012.

Abstract

Short overview and basic information about two scholarly books on private correspondence recently published and based primarily on electronic Corpus of Private Correspondence created at the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Art, Masaryk University Brno: Z. Hladká – O.

Martincová: Slova v soukromých dopisech. Lexikografická sonda [Words in private personal letters.

A probe into lexicography] (Brno 2012); and Z. Hladká et al: Soukromá korespondence jako lingvistický pramen [Private correspondence as a source of material for linguistic research work] (Brno 2013).

Keywords

• private correspondence
• lexicographical analysis
• marked vocabulary
• dictionary of private correspondence
• corpus processing of letters
• quantitative research
• language usage
• dynamism of vocabulary
• sociolinguistics
• pragmalinguistics