Modern dictionary of French and Russian pseudoequivalents

The article deals with the problem of interlingual pseudoequivalnce, which is considered to be part of interlingual interference and includes interlingual homonyms, heteronyms, “false friends” of translators/interpreters, etc. This topic has generated scientific interest for several decades but still has not received sufficient theoretical coverage, which represents the relevance of the topic, on the one hand. On the other hand, the importance of connections between lexicography and other sciences leads to the creation of new types of dictionaries including dictionaries of pseudoequivalents. The author overviews the existing dictionaries of the translator's “false friends” mostly for students on the example of different languages and describes in detail principles of creating a modern dictionary of pseudoequivalents on the example of the French and Russian languages (1721 pairs in total), taking into account grammatical, lexical, etymological, extralinguistic characteristics of the lexemes that form a pseudoequivalent pair, lexicographic approaches at the intersection of translation studies, lexicology and other linguistic sciences based on the data of explanatory and translation dictionaries, which makes it appropriate for the use of professional translators, not only for students. To reach this aim, the author uses a combination of methods: a comparative method as the main one, contextual and lexicographic analysis, a continuous sampling method to find pseudoequivalents, observation, comparison, classification, generalization, systematization, and quantitative calculation. The vocabulary entries, which are systemized alphabetically by French lexemes, present information about the type of pseudoe-quivants based on different criteria: lexical meaning (absolute, partial and contextual pseudoequivalents), form (graphical, phonetical, and phonetic-graphical pseudoequivalents), etymology (common, direct, reciprocal, indirect and disputable pseudoequivalents), and part-of-speech belonging (pseudoequivalets of the pair belong to the same, different, or several parts of speech). The study advances the project of a modern dictionary with three full examples and aims to also include phycholinguistical meanings resulted from phycholinguistical association experiments, which will lead to a deeper understanding of the volume of the meaning of pseudoequivalents and help avoid false analogies while translating and interpreting even more. The author declares no conflicts of interests.

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