The Inventario de la lengua castellana of José Ruiz León (1879): a lexicographical proposal to the Real Academia Española

Authors

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to show the work of José Ruiz León, Inventario de la lengua castellana (1879), and complete in this way a chapter of the lexicographical historiography of Spanish. The news that comes from the dictionary and its author are constructed with inaccuracies and forgetfulness. So with this work we want to give a more exact knowledge of the author’s life, of the theories and practices elaborated in his lexicographical method, of the notoriety of the work in life of the author and of the later forgetting of who is the author of the first ideological lexicographical work.

Keywords:

History of the lexicography of Spanish, 19th, Ideological dictionary, José Ruiz León, Inventario de la lengua castellana

Author Biography

María Águeda Moreno Moreno, Universidad de Jaén

Para correspondencia, dirigirse a: María Águeda Moreno Moreno (magueda@ujaen.es), Departamento de Filología Española (Área de Lengua Española), Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Jaén. Edif. D2-028, Paraje Las Lagunillas, s/n. 23017, Jaén, España.