Informative features of multilingual motivational comparative dictionaryas a new type of dictionary

Multilingual motivational comparative dictionary of birds and plants names (MMСD) is a sourcefor the studying of lexicological and lexicographical problems and questions associated with access toother areas of scientific knowledge - linguistic culturology, cognitive linguistics, linguistic countrystudy.This dictionary gives a more factual basis for the development of comparative motivology andanalysis of national specificity of lexical phenomena motivating words in different ways.In this dictionary a complete and detailed characterization of motivational words is given: lexicaland structural motivators, internal form of the word, motivational sign in relation to nomination, typeof motivation. This purely linguistic information is important to lexicologists, onomasiologists studyingthe composition and structure of formation of the motivated vocabulary of a language.MMСВ provides extralinguistic information on the characteristics of recognition of motivatedwords by native speakers, on how they perceive the linguistic and non-linguistic reality. Statements ofnative speakers' metalinguistic consciousness collected during the direct psycholinguistic experimentand included in the structure of a dictionary article will be interesting for professionals in the field ofcognitive semantics, psycholinguistics, cultural linguistics, for such statements are a specially organizedway of interpreting the reality by linguistic consciousness, which allows revealing the underlyingmechanisms and structures of ordinary consciousness.Multilingual motivational comparative dictionary will not disregard comparativists who can findgeneral and specific features of the phenomenon of lexical motivation of words in different languagesand identify country-specific motivational reflection.MMCD of birds and plants names reflects the person's perception of the natural world. Indicationsof metalinguistic consciousness, which are the arguments of speaking in a particular language ofpeople, help us to understand the language interpretation of the natural world. Analysis of indicationsof metalinguistic consciousness on the material of a particular language (inter-analysis) allows reachingthe level of language study of (national) worldview, cultural stereotypes, which is very valuablefor linguistic culturology. However, national-cultural identity is imperceptible from within, it is revealedin the process of comparative analysis, and MMCD of birds and plants names provides thismaterial.

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