The Collaborative Dictionary Razvezani jezik

Abstract

In the last fifteen years we have witnessed a proliferation of the so-called collaborative dictionaries, which have been compiled online by a broader audience. The present paper analyzes functioning, form, and peculiarities of collaborative dictionaries in the context of participatory lexicography. The author examines Razvezani jezik - Prosti slovar žive slovenščine [The Tongue Untied-A Free Dictionary of the Living Slovene Language] , which is varied in its content and rich in its linguistic inventions. Most attention is devoted to the analysis of selected linguistic phenomena that affect the very content of collaborative dictionaries, e.g., the topic of proper names, which leads to the broader issue of metalanguage and its forms in the entries of collaborative dictionaries.