Linguistic exclusion in the lexicography of the Czech language. On the treatment of the entry cikán ('gypsy') together with derivatives in selected reference works
2022
Abstract
The article describes in a chronological overview the lexicographical processing of the entry cikán ('Gypsy') and its derivatives which are now perceived as more or less discriminatory and establishes historical and political references. Central attention is ected to the dictionary articles from the Concise dictionaryof the Czech language: the author explores the connections between the dictionary articles and the tenor of the excerpted material which is available online asa digitized card index.
In this way one can partly determine to what extent onecan infer an evidence of a prejudice that has accompanied the presence of the Sinti and Roma on the Bohemian / Czech or Moravian territory for centuries until today.