The State and Prospects of Discursive-Stylistic Lexicography: An Overview Cover Image

Стан і перспективи дискурсивно-стилістичної лексикографії: огляд проблеми
The State and Prospects of Discursive-Stylistic Lexicography: An Overview

Author(s): Larysa Shevchenko, Dmytro Syzonov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexis
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: media lexicography; discursive-stylistic lexicography; lexicographic innovations; media linguistics; language dynamics; the concept of the new dictionary

Summary/Abstract: This article presents a general analysis of traditional and new lexicography. In doing so, it argues for the relevance of discursive-stylistic theoretical approaches and practices in compiling innovative dictionaries. Using the example of Ukrainian and Polish media dictionaries, the authors describe the evolutionary process of transition from print to electronic (computer) dictionaries, and from descriptive to analytical ones. A survey they conducted among students of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv confirms this process: 84% of the respondents preferred using new dictionaries based on computer technologies. The authors note that the trends observed in Polish and Ukrainian media lexicography are logical in the context of the development of world lexicography. In order to confirm this, they provide an overview of American, German and British media dictionaries. They also describe new Ukrainian dictionaries of the discursive type (e.g. Medialinhvistyka: Slovnyk terminiv i poniatʹ [Media Linguistics: A Dictionary of Terms and Concepts] by Larysa Shevchenko, Dmytro Derhach and Dmytro Syzonov, 2014) and the frequency type (e.g. Novi slova ta frazeolohizmy v ukrains′kykh media: Slovnyk [A Dictionary of New Words and Phraseologisms in the Ukrainian Mass Media] by Larysa Shevchenko and Dmytro Syzonov, 2017). The dictionaries are discussed in the context of the development of Ukrainian lexicography and its interrelation with current European, particularly Polish, lexicographic tendencies. The authors plan to continue developing multimedia dictionaries, focusing in particular on collecting media material and its computer processing. The aim of this work is to expand and further organise a dataset for new dictionaries of the twenty-first century, guided by the discursive-stylistic theoretical approach.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 55
  • Page Range: 1-19
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Ukrainian