Illustrative Material in the Structure of Phraseographic Entries

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to account for the important role of illustrative examples as an inherent part of entries of phraseological dictionaries. After designating the function of this element of the entry we suggest the review of its development from the earliest dictionaries to the latest ones. On the basis of existing unilingual phraseological dictionaries of the English and Russian languages we draw the conclusion about the necessity of elaborating appropriate methodology of selecting contexts and their arranging in the entry. Research into illustrative examples structure of four online idiom dictionaries evidences that online phraseography has not worked out its methodology of selecting, preparing and representing illustrative material used in resources of computer and corpora linguistics. We also make emphasis on the fact that phraseography is a part of linguistics.

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“…The issue of dictionary definitions was considered and thoroughly studied in the works of such researchers as E. Arsentieva (2007), R. Ayupova (2015), M.I. , V. Mokienko, A. Melerovich et al (2004), etc. At this point it seems quite reasonable to consider the viewpoint of R. Ayupova (2008), who defines five major structural types of phraseological definitions:  the description or the definition of the phraseological unit with the help of a word phrase or a sentence;  the definition, which includes both the explanation of the basic meaning of the phraseological unit with the help of a word phrase or a sentence and the translation with the help of the equivalent;  the definition, which can be considered by represent some kind of the expanded structure;…”

“…In spite of the fact that Tatar and English phraseological stocks are frequently compared, and phraseography has recently made a big step forward with the potentials of computer and corpora linguistics [Ayupova, 2015], the compilation of a bilingual (Tatar-English or English-Tatar) phraseological dictionary has not been undertaken yet. Generally, phraseological units and their counterparts are presented in bilingual dictionaries whose number has recently started to increase [Shakhmayev, 1994;Asadullin A.…”