О критеријумима за семантичко нормирање речи

Abstract

Some basic guidelines are tentatively offered for distinguishing the proper meaning of a word from unacceptable of nonstandard ones. The usage of “good suthors”, as documented in large monolingual dictionaries, should take precedence over all other criteria. In judging neologisms and semantic shifts, polysemy should be recognized as a normal linguistic phenomenon. To guard against excessive and unwarranted changes, however, other criteria must be added: a new meaning is not acceptable if it causes ambiguity or misunderstanding, if it is due to confusion between two or more similar lexemes, if it clashes with established terminological usage, if the word thus used belongs to certain registers such as the bureaucratic or officiales, etc. For words of foreign origin a sort of multilingual norm should also be considered in an international Latinism, for exemple, a meaning wich has developed solely in Serbian is likely to be les legitimate than the meanings which are paralleled in other European languages.

Насупрот ненаучном и емпиријском расуђивању какво је деценијама владало на овом пољу, рад настоји да пружи смернице за раздвајање правилног од погрешног значења појединих израза. При том основно мерило треба да буде узус добрих писаца посведочен у лексикографској грађи, чему се додају и други специфичнији критеријуми, посебно за речи страног порекла.