TY - JOUR AU - Nikula, Kristina PY - 2007/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Pensionär – aldrig i livet - De äldre i ordböckerna JF - Nordiske Studier i Leksikografi JA - NSL VL - 0 IS - 9 SE - Artikler DO - UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/nsil/article/view/20225 SP - AB - <p>Today elderly people in many ways radically differ from those of former generations.<br />One consequence of this is that terms like pensioner (Sw. pensionär) with their connotations<br />are often not felt to be adequate any more. The same concerns the stereotype of old<br />people as generally poor, ill and disabled. The lexicographic examples in the entries of<br />Swedish monolingual dictionaries to an astonishingly great extent repeat this stereotype.<br />In this paper the future of existing terms denoting old people and the introduction of<br />new words are discussed. Further the function of lexicographic examples is discussed and<br />the question is raised, whether the one-sided description of the elderly can be defended<br />ethically.</p> ER -