Лекции по лексикологии английского языка. Гусева Г.В. - 60 стр.

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In 1933 the dictionary was republished under the title The Oxford English

Dictionary (OED), because the work on the dictionary was conducted at Oxford.

The dictionary contained 13 volumes.

The American lexicography began to develop much later, at the end of the

century. The most famous American English dictionary was compiled by

Noah Webster. He was an active statesman and public man and he published his

first dictionary in 1806.

II. Classification of Dictionaries

All dictionaries are divided into linguistic and encyclopaedic dictionaries.

Encyclopaedic dictionaries describe different objects, phenomena, people and give

some information about them. Linguistic dictionaries describe vocabulary units,

their semantic structure , their origin, their usage. Words are usually given in the

alphabetical order.

Linguistic dictionaries are divided into general and specialized dictionaries.

General dictionaries include explanatory and translation dictionaries. Specialized

dictionaries include dictionaries of synonyms, antonyms, collocations, word-

frequency, neologisms, slang, pronouncing, etymological, phraseological and

others.

All types of dictionaries can be unilingual if the explanation is given in the

same language, bilingual if the explanation is given in another language and also

they can be polylingual. There are a lot of explanatory dictionaries: NED (New

English Dictionary), SOD (Shorter Oxford Dictionary), COD (Concise Oxford

Dictionary). In explanatory dictionaries the entry consists of the spelling,

transcription, grammatical forms, meanings, examples, phraseology.

Translation dictionaries give words and their equivalents in the other

language. There are English-Russian dictionaries by I.R. Galperin (БАРС -

Большой Англо-русский Словарь) consisting of two volumes, by Y. Apresyan

(three volumes) and others.