Resumen de Spanish glossary of the caribbean region: State of the art and observations
Dilyara Yakubova, Elena A. Pleuchova, Alsu Valeeva
The countries of the Caribbean region occupy an important niche of the modern world community. The key to the understanding of the mentality of people who live in them is in the language; accordingly, the study of the corresponding national variants of Spanish language is becoming more urgent. The vocabulary of the Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean is the result of an integrated comparative study of the national variants of Spanish language of the Hispanic Caribbean countries and it reflects the biosphere characteristics of each of them. The glossary is a bilingual lexicographic resource created on the basis of available dictionaries and Internet resources, with data verification by field and corpus methods. The creation of the glossary was preceded by the development of a database of nouns that are characteristic for the countries of the region under study, containing detailed information on each of them. The work on the database revealed numerous discrepancies in the data contained in different lexicographic sources, which determined the need for additional studies. In the course of the corpus study, the search was performed for the contexts of disputable lexeme use in the linguistic corpora of Spanish language; in the course of the field survey, the representatives of each of the countries of the region were asked to verify the relevance of one or another lexeme or clarify its meaning. The article contains the description of the methodology to create a glossary, describes its current state and gives some observations made by the authors during its creation.
