%0 Journal Article %T Aplica£¿£¿o da semantica das condi£¿£¿es de verdade ¨¤ reda£¿£¿o das defini£¿£¿es nos dicion¨¢rios semasiol¨®gicos %A Farias %A Virginia Sita %J Revista Brasileira de Lingu¨ªstica Aplicada %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1984-63982012000100010 %X a theory of the lexicographic definition should be supported by three parameters: (1) a taxonomy of explanatory paraphrases, (2) a syntactic pattern, and (3) a semantic model. this paper deals with the third parameter. the study aims at analyzing the application of truth-conditional semantics to the writing of lexicographic definitions, in order to: (a) evaluate the contributions of this theoretical model to the elucidation of the meaning of lexical units, and (b) determine its limitations in relation to the writing of explanatory paraphrases. %K lexicography %K lexicographic definition %K truth-conditional semantics. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1984-63982012000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en