On the concept of a systemic dictionary of meta-indicators

The multidimensional illustrative dictionary of meta-indicators includes lexemes, phraseological units and word combinations that regularly explicate metatext in A. Wierzbicka's interpretation. The aim of the article is to substantiate the expediency of the composition of the dictionary entry and the depth of the description of its components (zones, lexicographic parameters) and to show the dependence of the lexicographic type of meta-indicators on the number of lexicographic parameters and their specifics. Each lexicographic type of metatextual indicators is a group of dictionary units selected on the basis of a set of interconnected integral and differential heterogeneous lexicographic parameters, description zones. Variants of dictionary entries represent three lexicographic types of meta-indicators: connectors (takim obrazom 'this way', prezhde vsego 'first of all', slovom 'in a word', itak 'so', nakonets 'finally', vo-pervykh 'firstly'), qua-siperformatives (povtoryu 'I'll repeat', dobavlyu 'I'll add') and semasiological meta-elements (v pryamom smysle 'literally', v polnom smysle slova 'in the full sense of the word', vplokhom smysle slova 'in a bad sense of the word', obrazno govorya 'figuratively speaking'). The dictionary entry is considered as a text consisting of several zones. A zone is understood as a compositional part of a dictionary entry that has a length from a word to a complex syntactic unit, represents areas of the description of a dictionary unit in a certain aspect, is characterised by the integrity of the representation of this information and contains one (or more) lexicographic parameter. Dictionary entries have the same set of mandatory lexicographic parameters and differ in the number of zones and optional lexicographic parameters. Obligatory parameters include the following zones: the title with mandatory (spelling) and optional (information on the variation of the meta-indicator expression and on the grammatical paradigm of some vocabulary units) parameters; the scope of operation with mandatory parameters (distribution characteristic of the dictionary unit, the scope of its operation, the range of the meta-indicator); the status in the language system with mandatory (grammatical qualification of the dictionary unit) and optional (prosody, punctuation and functional homonymy) parameters; semantics with mandatory (interpretation, pragmatic program, functional-stylistic) and optional (synonyms, negative material) parameters. "Formal functions" is an optional zone. In the dictionary of meta-indicators a dictionary entry includes up to seven zones and 14 lexicographic parameters that reflect the word- and text-centered, systemic-structural approaches to the study of metatext and naturally connect information of different sections of linguistics and semiotics. Lexicographic units of the same type have minor variations of the set of lexicographic parameters quantitatively (1-2), e.g., dictionary entries of connector meta-indicators may vary in the presence / absence of the functional homonymy zone in lexical units. Different types of lexicographic meta-indicators are identified based on (1) the number of zones and lexicographic parameters; (2) differential lexicographic parameters.

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