Словари русского языка в интернете

Abstract

The article offers an overview of web resources containing monolingual linguistic dictionaries of the Russian language. It explores Internet lexicography from educational, research, and general cultural perspective. Anonymous sites that disregard the standards of language are abundant. This has a negative impact on the way dictionaries are used in both educational and social sphere. The deformation of ideas about the principles of working with dictionaries is also affecting the professional community of linguists and teachers. Few authoritative resources lose to unauthorized ones, which is obvious from search request results on search engines. This is only logical, since the former have no functional or structural advantages over the latter, but are significantly inferior in completeness. Internet dictionaries have become an essential tool for linguists. The special features of an electronic dictionary as a lexicographic product or as a functionally enriched electronic version of a paper dictionary, have been described theoretically. However, the theoretical description has not been consistently implemented. Large lexicographic projects continue to be accomplished with the priority given to printed dictionaries. What is more, fully-functional Internet versions of classical dictionaries crucial for several branches of linguistics are not available. Besides, early projects on digitizing some of these dictionaries were suspended due to obsolete technical solutions. Sites that have relatively rich functionality in terms of search options and dictionary structure are rare and contain only special-purpose dictionaries. Even those vocabulary projects that are structurally and technically formed as a hypertext lexicographic environment still do not have a web version, e. g., The Dictionary of the 21st Century Russian Language. Under these conditions, benchmarks for the functional organization of the dictionary Internet space are set by non-professional lexicography, primarily Wiktionary, the ironic attitude towards which is gradually weakening in the research community. The absence of a single publicly available authoritative web dictionary of the Russian language impedes the solution of both educational and research tasks related to Internet lexicography. This gap is also a cultural issue and shows Russia as inferior at the backdrop of other national Internet communities.