MODERN TRENDS IN LEXICOGRAPHY: LINGUOCULTUROLOGICAL DICTIONARY

Abstract

The article studies a new trend in the development of modern Russian lexicography. The aim of the study is to determine the place of linguocultural dictionaries in Russian lexicography. The article presents an analytical review of a new type of dictionaries – dictionaries of culture, or dictionaries of the linguistic and cultural direction. The authors consider an important component of the structure of such dictionaries to be an integrated approach to the study of the Russian language in the prism of the culture and mentality of the Russian linguomental community. The characteristics of four types of dictionaries are given – a dictionary of concepts, terminological dictionaries, linguistic and cultural dictionaries of phraseological units and paremias, and writer’s dictionaries. The paper gives an abstract of each type of dictionary, indicates the purpose and content of such dictionaries, and names the most famous dictionaries and encyclopedias.