General Conception, Methodology and Topical Issues of the Dictionary of a New Type Idiomatics of Russian Avant-Garde in the Context of Modern Trends of Authorial Lexicography

The present article analyzes the latest trends in authorial lexicography in Russia, which are as follows: (1) compiling two opposing types of authorial dictionaries- single-author and several-author; (2) elaborating a differential approach aimed at creating whole series of single-author and several-author dictionaries; (3) compiling authorial dictionaries of an integrative type; (4) widely applying computer technologies due to the new tasks of authorial lexicographic practice as well as the new demands of modern language speakers. The dictionary Idiomatics of Russian Avant-Garde is one of the stages of the research project “Idiomatics of Avant-Garde”. Its elaboration is carried out in line with the above-described modern lexicographic tendencies. The dictionary is a reference-concordance book of an integrative type. Its creation is accompanied by the development of operational notions and methodological tools aimed at revealing the specific nature of the lexicographic object-the avant-garde idiomatics, at identifying its various types in avant-garde discourse. The specificity of avant-garde discourse requires a special approach to the formation of the empirical basis of the lexicographic project, which is an e-library. The conducted research results in establishing the criteria for the organization of an e-library, owing to which it is a representative electronic resource of data that comprehensively presents the artistic and literary works of the authors under lexicographic analysis. Besides, the e-library allows carrying out separate lexicographic studies in order to elaborate various constituents of the macro- and microstructure of the dictionary designed, in particular, the headword index. The specific nature of avant-gardists’ creative activity, their intention to synthesize different kinds of art (in particular, to combine verbal and pictorial elements) leads to the formation of a new type of the headword index. Along with verbal units, it includes non-verbal idioms. The typology of avant-garde idiomatics elaborated in the research makes it possible to identify various (verbal and non-verbal) types of headwords and reveal special relevance of the categorial feature “inter-semioticity” in the systematization of non-verbal idiomatics of avant-garde. In general, the elaborated approach to the lexicographic analysis of avant-garde idiomatics as a result of linguistic and artistic experimentation reveals various methods and forms of realizing the creative potential of the Russian language in the avant-garde literature and art (particularly in painting). It also gives insights into the ways and forms of both the interaction and the conceptual relations of Russian poetry and poetics with the Russian art of the early 20th century, which was marked by indigenous changes in Russian society and radical innovations in Russian culture.