To the concept of a complete dictionary of popular phraseology: Problems of macrostructuring

A Complete Dictionary of Popular Phraseology is a new largest lexicographical project which is being developed by lexicographers of Saint Petersburg University. The relevance of the project is due to the need for a theoretical and practical generalization of experience of Russian dialect phraseography and drawing up an innovative dictionary on this basis. The innovative nature of the dictionary manifests itself, among other things, on the level of macro-structuring - by choosing the principles of formation of the glossary and its organization. The authors refuse the differential approach to the selection of dialect material and implement the concept of a complete dialect dictionary in a new interpretation: dialect phraseology will be presented in the dictionary against a nationwide phraseological background through the use of the material of fiction, folklore, media text, slang dictionaries, records of modern speech and survey data. This will allow to adequately reflect the paradigmatic relations in the system of Russian phraseology and to reveal the range of variations of phraseological units. In accordance with the principle of lexicographical completeness, not only idioms but also figurative comparisons, composite folk terms and a part of communicative phraseological units will be included in the dictionary. The new dictionary will implement the core-word principle of systematization of the material with an alphabetic-cluster organization of the glossary. Phraseological units are grouped under core words into lexicographical clusters, which are arranged in alphabetical order of headings - core words. The innovative aspect of macro-structuring of the dictionary is the development of non-comparative idioms and figurative comparisons under a common core-word, which required the harmonization of the parameterization of material. The parametric zones of the dictionary entry represent the original form of the idiom, variant, stylistic, areal, semantic characteristics of the phraseological unit. In addition to these explicit parameters, the associative potential and idiom-formation activity of the core-word will be implicitly represented by the alphabetic-cluster arrangement of the material. Functional-semantic and historical-etymological analysis of phraseological units united under a common core-word will reveal the ethno-cultural component of their motivations. Thus, we can talk about the implicit linguacultural parameterization of each idiom and each core-word, and this word can be the name of a linguocultural concept, reconstructed, among other, from the material of phraseology. Thus, the innovative techniques of macrostructuring will significantly increase the volume of the dictionary, implement new lexicographical parameters and represent the dialect phraseological space in all its relations and interactions with the nationwide phraseology.

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