A NEW WORD AND A NEW DICTIONARY: PROBLEMS OF THE SEMANTICS DESCRIPTION IN ONLINE DICTIONARIES OF SLANG

This paper studies online dictionaries of Russian slang which are created and replenished by slang speakers and exist only in virtual form. The importance of their study for the theory of neography is revealed. Attention is paid to the problems of their macroand microstructure: the selection of vocabulary, differentiation of polysemous words and homonyms, the presence of a large number of options, the structure of the dictionary entry. The parameters of the online dictionary entry are identified, they are divided into two types: parameters specific for online dictionaries (the date of adding a lexical unit, the author of the entry, the rating as a reflection of its evaluation by the users (the number of «pros» and «cons»), presence of tags, correlating the word with spheres of its use), and Новое слово и новый словарь: проблемы описания семантики в онлайн-словарях сленга 281 parameters common for different types of dictionaries (the character of the headword, the semantics of the word reflected in its definition, and illustrations of its use). Based on the analysis of more than a thousand dictionary entries, the main methods of word semantization in online dictionaries are revealed: philological interpretations, synonyms. The author determines the differences between these techniques from those used in dictionaries created by professional linguists (duplication of the title units and synonyms, presence of «inclusions», encyclopedic interpretation, construction of interpretations as utterances of the definitions).