Principles of typological classification and characterization of dictionaries

To start with, the description and classification of dictionaries mostly understood in a narrow sense as `dictionary making`. However, it acquired increasing importance and should be also dealt with. In the Introduction to the Dictionary of Lexicography (published by Routledge in 1998) its authors assert that `the boundaries between professional activity and academic field of lexicography are fluid` (Hartman and James, 1998). Thus, importance of lexicography is growing and its field is expanding, perhaps at a much greater pace than most of us imagine.
According to American economist and writer Malkiel, for typological purposes each lexicographic work can be decomposed into a number of prime features in the same way as a speech sound is separated into distinctive features of phonology. The lexicographic distinctive features thus became a universal tool for a typological characterization of any dictionary, which can be regarded as a bundle of characteristic features assembled in some kind of arrangement. One of the most detailed classifications is presented in the Introduction to the Dictionary Lexicography. Its authors distinguish a phenomenological typology, or categorization based on formal features, which takes account of such compositional features as size (‘pocket dictionary’, ‘abridged dictionary’, ‘concise dictionary’, etc.) or coverage of the content of the work (‘general dictionary’, ‘specialised dictionary’, etc). A presentational or tectonic typology would focus on the format (‘alphabetical’, ‘classified’, ‘thematic’, etc.) or medium (‘manuscript’, ‘print’, ‘electronic’, etc.) of the dictionary. A functional typology, or categorization based on the contextual uses of the dictionary, would focus on the information categories provided (‘pronunciation’, ‘spelling’, ‘etymological’, etc.), and the ways these are presented (‘explanatory’, ‘pedagogical’, ‘terminological’, etc.) within the perspective of the target user (‘scholarly’, ‘learner’s’, ‘translator’s’, etc.). A linguistic typology would be based on the language of the dictionary (‘monolingual’, ‘bilingual’, etc.). What is more, lexicographic distinctive features are grouped on...

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