FOLKLOR LEXICOGRAPHY AS A NEW VECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN LEXICOGRAPHY

Abstract

Today, folklor lexicography is beginning to emerge as a separate area of linguistic and folklore studies, which may become a new milestone in the development of Ukrainian lexicography in the future. This field, in our opinion, should ultimately be oriented towards the creation of a general full-scale dictionary of the language of folklore, the creation of which may well be preceded by dictionaries of various genres of the language of oral folklore. The article outlines the main theoretical and practical achievements of Ukrainian linguistic science in the development of the foundations of dictionaries of the language of folklore. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of theoretical studies and practical lexicographical attempts aimed at studying the language of folklore, which is why our study is relevant. Our goal was to develop models for describing the main verbal means available in the language of folklore. In this article, we present, in particular, samples of parameterisation of dialect words, onomies (anthroponyms and toponyms), words with symbolic meanings, ofyukstaposites nouns, outdated and new verbal elements functioning in works of Ukrainian folk literature. It should be noted that the models of description presented in this article do not claim to be exhaustive of semantics, comprehensive of all linguistic means used in folklore texts, stable expressions that include the corresponding register words, but are working attempts to assert the need for a lexicographic description of verbal elements of folklore, to demonstrate the potential possibilities of such a lexicographic description, and to emphasise its representativeness. Thus, our own observations and theoretical and practical developments in Ukrainian linguistics regarding the principles and peculiarities of lexicography of verbal facts of oral folklore give grounds to assert that folklor lexicography can be distinguished into a self-sufficient area of linguistic and lexicographic research.