Lexicography. Types of dictionaries

1. Lexicography. Types of dictionaries

2.

Lexicography
dictionary

3. The functions of linguistic forms and their meanings are so diverse, that it is normal that there are various type of

diachronic
synchronic
Diachronic
Diachronic
etymological
Historical dictionaries
focus their attention on
the changes in the form
and meaning of words
within a period of time,
for which there is historical evidence at
hand.
Synchronic
synchronic
historical
Etymological dictionaries
focus their attention on
the origin of words. They
deal with prehistory of
words. The prehistory
often requires the origin
of the word in other
languages.

4. The second division of dictionaries is into general and restricted.

general
Restricted
General
Restricted
General
standarddescriptive
overall-descriptive.
Standard-descriptive
dictionaries can be
characterized as describing
the standard national
language used at the
definite point of time. This
dictionary points to the
norms of using words. It
does not describe dialectal
forms, archaisms, origin of
words
restricted
Overall-descriptive
dictionaries include all
the information about
words. Such a dictionary
will tend to register
occasional applications,
author's words, technical
words.
a Dictionary of Dialects,
a Dictionary of Slang,
a Dictionary of Synonyms,
a Dictionary of Phraseological Units,
a Dictionary of Abbreviations,
a Dictionary on Science,
some author's dictionaries,
a Dictionary of Foreign Words, etc.

5.

Dictionaries also differ
the number of units
the order of units:
Another principle on which dictionaries can
be based
bi-lingual
monolingual

6. Scholarly dictionaries

scholarly dictionaries
“national dictionaries”
The Oxford English Dictionary
“period
dictionaries.”
a dictionary of American English