Semantic Notes with the Directive Role in the Dictionary of Standard Slovenian: Threat, Warning

Abstract

The article discusses semantic notes with the directive role. These notes define the use of lexemes under the circumstances where the speaker conveys his wish for the addressee to perform a certain action by means of language. The author scrutinized the semantic notes expressing a threat or a warning and compared them to similar explanations in phraseological nests in the Dictionary of Standard Slovenian (Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika). In lexicography semantic notes serve as a linguistic tool for defining and explaining lexemes in a dictionary. At the same time these notes indicate how lexemes are used in communication under given circumstances. The article presents an attempt to show how updated semantic notes might be used in a modern dictionary of standard Slovenian.