COMPARATIVE LEXICOGRAPHY OF RUSSIA AND CHINA: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH, PROBLEMS AND DIRECTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The article examines contemporary research, key problems and prospects for the development of comparative lexicography in Russia and China. The relevance of the topic is determined by the expansion of Russian-Chinese linguistic, educational and intercultural contacts, as well as by the need to improve bilingual dictionaries. Particular attention is paid to the differences between Russian and Chinese lexicographic traditions: the Russian tradition is oriented toward the systematic description of the word, including its grammatical, stylistic and semantic characteristics, whereas the Chinese tradition is largely shaped by the hieroglyphic writing system, the graphic-semantic structure of the character and the morphemic nature of the Chinese word. The article analyzes problems of equivalence, the rendering of culturally marked vocabulary, description of phraseological units, pragmatic information, neologisms and Internet-related lexical units. The necessity of moving from the “word – translation” model to a comprehensive model of lexicographic description is substantiated. Such a model includes translation, definition, stylistic labels, pragmatic commentary, typical contexts and linguocultural explanation.