SOME PECULIARITIES OF LEXICOGRAPHICAL SOURCE ENTRIES

Svetlana CORCODEL Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Аннотация

In most dictionaries and manuals lexicography is defined as “the writing and making of dictionaries”. This definition implies that lexicography is concerned mainly with the principles underlying the making of dictionaries. This is quite true; lexicography does consider the problems and principles a lexicographer is faced with when he sits down to make a new dictionary. This huge product of lexicographic activity has become an object of consideration too, and it also falls within the scope of lexicography. To develop a full awareness of the problems in lexicography and the ways to their solution, a scholar is advised to get acquainted first with the lexicographic legacy he has come into and secondly, that it presents a clear-cut field of human interest. Keywords: language, system, lexicographical unit, etymology, denotation, connotation