On the principles of the dictionary of intertextual units from I.A. Krylov's fables

The article considers some methods of lexicographical description of quotations, winged words and literary images from I.A. Krylov's fables. The fables by I.A. Krylov came into the circle of philological culture and have been present in the Russian macrotext for 200 years, from the beginning of the poet's fable creative work. The average educated native speaker of Russian knows 10-15 fables, about 70 fables can be found in dictionaries of winged words. The method of sequential selection shows that all 198 fables by I.A. Krylov were used in citation, but the position of such units is different. Krylov's intertex-tual dictionary has about 1700 vocables, a considerable part of them also shows the popularity of the writer's word, functioning of his expressions as a constantly transforming intertextual phenomenon which adapts to the changing discourse. In the article a classification of fables was proposed from he point of view of their common fame, frequency in quoting and new contexts producing. The analysis has shown that the main functional tendency of I.A. Krylov's expressions is semantic and structure change from a generalizing meaning to actualization of some components and their applying to everyday details. In the Russian intertextual lexicography there were two directions which have determined the creation of two types of dictionaries: static and dynamic. First of all, it is the intertextual statics that assumes the description of material as an index of initial units focused on strict standard preservation of "someone else's word", and, as a rule, without illustrative material. On the other hand, the intertextual dynamics assumes that the author's word is considered functionally, first of all taking into account its convertibility, alternativeness, associative and standard mobility, variety and heterogeneity of illustrative contexts. The dictionary of intertextual units from I.A. Krylov's fables has been focused on the processing of material according to the principles of dynamics. In this regard further development of two types of intertextual dictionaries is represented as most perspective: the personal thesaurus and the general vade-mecum covering the circle of verbal culture. In Krylov's creativity one may find self-contained fables. Their content and quotation potential is polydiscursive and universal, applicable in a wide opened number of contexts. However, there are a lot of forgotten or half-forgotten (monodiscursive) fables that are still actively used in modern texts. The dictionary is intended, first and foremost, for students-philologists in the study of the history of the Russian literary language, dialectology, modern Russian language, Russian speech culture and history of the formation of Russian literary norms.

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