L’attitude à l’égard des néologismes dans la trajectoire du dictionnaire académique Un conflit entre la norme et l’usage

The main goal of this paper is to examine the relationships between neology and the dictionary based on the assumption that the attitude toward neologisms, when creating a lexicographic corpus, is based upon a certain conception of the norm which typologically differentiates the lexicographic outcome. More specifically, our purpose is to examine the criteria used by the Real Academia Española for entering new lexicon in the latest edition of its Dictionary (2014), understood as the outcome of a tradition—the Spanish lexicography tradition—which dates back to the first quarter of the 18^th century. Furthermore we will next consider some samples of the procedures of the Academia regarding the processing of neologisms, taking into account both its policy statements—as shown in the front matter—and the specific praxis that can be detected in some of the particularly significant editions of its reference Dictionary.