Bibliogr. s. 52-53

In this paper, I attempt a linguistic analysis of how lexeme values is used in ac ademic sources. Without criticising the extensive use of this notion, I address the gap between what values are supposed to mean and what they can mean in a broader scholarly discourse. I start by discussing the lexicographic under standing of values and proceed to analyse scholastic literature where the mean ing of values may be stretched. Within this approach, I question if the effective use of values is feasible in the future due to the increasingly controversial na ture of the term and try to motivate a discussion of terminological precision in academic sources.