Сoncepts of the newest explanatory dictionaries of the Ukrainian language and problems of metalexicography

Abstract

Powerful development of the latest explanatory lexicography contributes to the deepening of the theory of lexicography and to the development of its terminological apparatus. Compilation of new explanatory dictionaries (one-volume Dictionary of the Creative Personality Language of Ukraine of the Second Half of the 20th — Early 21th Century and multi-volume Dictionary of the Active Type Ukrainian Language) is conducted in conjunction with theoretical research of lexicographical set of instruments and modeling of the new linguistic and linguoculturological objects that appears on the basis of the modern lexicographic works. Lexicographers of the Institute for the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine actively use macrostructural means of material systematizing and scientifically prove their importance for modeling of linguistic and conceptual pictures of the world. We approve a new method of integral linguistic modeling, on the basis of which the lexical core of the language, ideographic groups of vocabulary, conceptual dominants of the Ukrainian worldview, and systems of figurative means and stable word combinations appear. The typology of dictionaries is undergoing innovative changes. Each newest explanatory dictionary appears as an integral (complex, universal) because the new dictionaries contain significant amount of diverse information. We trace the strengthening of a new direction of integral linguistic research and the active development of metalexicography. The newest dictionaries emphasize the powerful spiritual development of Ukrainian society, its desire for independence and relentless understanding of the linguistic and cultural features of other nations in the world. Explanatory dictionaries of the Ukrainian language of the XXI century are axiologically oriented. They register values common to all mankind as well as national ones, strengthen the process of operating of the Ukrainian language as a state one in Ukraine. They also register understanding the fact that integral type explanatory dictionaries have the leading value in the development of the state of Ukraine. Keywords: metalexicography, explanatory dictionary, dictionary of the creative personality language, dictionary of active vocabulary, integral dictionary, lexical core of language, method of integral linguistic modeling