LEXICOGRAPHICAL FIXATION OF WORDS’ MEANINGS BY THE EXAMPLE OF SEME’S EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY (BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)

Maklakova Elena A., Malinina Diana A.

The article deals with the principles of lexicographic fixation of language units on the material of members of the semantic group “Names of persons by the level of material condition” in the English language. The words were selected into the group on the basis of dominant supporting semantic trait in their semantics. Practical application of the study lies in the creation of seme’s explanatory dictionary, which contains a variety of language units. It contains contemporary words, old-fashioned words, neologisms, dialectisms, slang and acronyms. It has lexical and phraseological units, collocations, which highlights the opportunities of the scientific method used. The study is carried out in the framework of seme semasiology and Voronezh scientific school of Z.D Popova and I.A. Sternin using aspect-structure approach with structure pattern of seme description of a word meaning (by Professor E.A. Maklakova).

Keywords:semantics, seme, sememe, seme’s explanatory dictionary, lexicographical fixation