A conception of the electronic thesaurus of a dialect language personality

A conception of the electronic dictionary of the ideographic type (thesaurus) is presented in the article. The material for the dictionary is the speech of one person - a speaker of the Siberian dialect of Russian. The Thesaurus of the Dialect Language Personality is developed as an electronic supplement to the basic explanatory dictionary - the four-volume Complete Dictionary of a Dialect Language Personality. The aim of the new dictionary is to visualise the worldview of the dialect speaker. Its creation involves the development of a general classification scheme built on the hierarchical principle, the classification of units in it and the organization of the results in an online format. The principles of the dictionary, its overall structure and the structure of the entry are described on the background of the existing Russian thesauri of literary language and dialect speech. The following principles for creating this lexicographic product are developed: I. Principles of material selection. The dictionary will include all appellative parenthetical words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) fixed in an individual lexicon. Non-notional parts of speech (prepositions, conjunctions, particles) are excluded, as well as copulas, interjections and pronouns. II. Principles of dictionary organisation. All the words in this dictionary will be ordered on the semantic basis, not alphabetically. The biggest groups of words are called sections ("The Universe", "The Human", "The Human and the Universe"). Then each group is divided into subgroups (subsections, e.g., "The Human As a Living Creature", "The Human As a Mental and Moral Creature" and "The Human As a Social Creature" in the section "The Human"), which in their turn are divided into smaller subgroups which are filled with words. Classification groups have a step-type numbering which reflects their place in the overall hierarchical scheme. The dictionary is created in an electronic format. The final product will be a system of hyperlinks, which will allow displaying the hierarchical structure of the vocabulary in a visual form and also navigating quickly. The main search capabilities will be the search for a semantic group and a specific word. The dictionary entry consists of three structural elements: 1) the numerical index indicating the position of the given semantic group in the structure of the lexicon; 2) the name of the semantic group; 3) the list of words included in it. The dictionary entry does not include the interpretation of the word and contexts of its use.

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