THE REGISTRATION OF WORDS IN THREE BRAZILIAN DICTIONARIES: INDICIOS DE POLISEMIA AND OF SENSING GENERATORS

Abstract

This paper intends to present a brief lexicographical analysis of two curse words in three of Brazil's main dictionaries: Aurelio, Michaelis and Houaiss. The goal is to verify which use marks are assigned to those curse words by those dictionaries. In addition, it is also investigated in which ways the microstructure of these dictionaries contemplates the polysemy of the terms in question, as well as the morphosyntactic processes that generate different assumptions with distinct meanings. The paper's conclusion indicates that, although the analyzed dictionaries present different meanings to the words in question, this registry still requires a more homogeneous criterion.