Ethnolinguistic, ethnodialectal and linguacultural dictionaries as a new stage of lexicography

The research subject is modern ethnolinguistic, ethnodialectal and linguacultural dictionaries of the Russian language. Their appearance in recent decades has been considered to be a result of developing the theoretical foundation of interdisciplinary linguistic directions of Russian linguistics. Alongside this, the basis of "culture-filled" dictionaries is dialectal lexicons by V.I. Dahl, V.N. Dobrovolsky, D.K. Zelenin, and others. These lexicons include not only language data, but also different information about the domestic and spiritual culture of Russian peasants. Dialectal dictionaries of a classical type are still valuable as sources of ethnographic data. The aim of the study is the interpretation of conceptual and formal-substantive typological features of new dictionaries integrating linguistic and cultural knowledge. The author of the article uses a basic scientific description method with its observation, classification and interpretation techniques. The analysis is focused on the correlation of properly linguistic data and extralin-guistic ones as well as on the allocation of the latter in different zones of the vocabulary entry. The study has revealed that non-linguistic information in the early "culture-filled" dictionaries is predominantly placed in the interpretation or in the speech illustration zone. At the same time, the comparison of lexicons created by representatives of different linguistics schools has detected a perceptible variation of the volume of the illustrative speech material - from its almost total absence in the five volumes of Slavic Antiquities through inclusions of memoirs and children's folklore into the ethnodialectal dictionary Spiritual Culture of North Belozerie to a significant expansion of authentic recordings of dialect speakers' informal conversations in the conditions of natural communication (with no compilers involved) in the series of the Middle-Ob dialect dictionaries. With time, more and more editions started developing and introducing a special parameter of the vocabulary entry - a linguacultural commentary. Nowadays, it can be of different importance, "depth of disclosure" and formal-semantic organization because recognized schools of Russian lexicography fill it with various structural elements. Their linguistic part is most often represented by etymology and motivation of lexical units. As for the cultural study section, it turns out to be vaguer and introduces ethnographic, encyclopedic and country study data as well as information about conceptual meanings, archetypes and cultural codes enciphered in the headword. This state of affairs is dictated by the vague borders of the field "сulture-filled vocabulary".

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