ON THE SYNCRETISM OF SOME STYLISTIC LABELS (WITH RESPECT TO THE LABELS COLLOQUIAL AND PROFESSIONAL)

The article examines the features of the lexicographic representation of stylisti cally marked vocabulary of the Modern Russian language (based on the material of the “A cademic Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language” and “The Dictionary of the Russian Language” edited by A. P. Evgenieva). Stylistic labels — especially labels of substandard lexical units — inform the dictionary user about the scope of the word use being described or the meaning of the word (everyday speech, vernacular, social or professional jargon, etc.). The article analyzes some lexical meanings labeled as “colloquial” and “professional’. For example, in “The Dictionary of the Russian Language”, edited by A. P. Evgenieva, the word gololed is presented as a synonym for the word gololeditsa, but these words refer to different weather phenomena. In the “Academic Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language” the basic meanings of the words gololed and gololeditsa correspond to their encyclopedic definition, while the meaning ‘gololed’ in the word gololeditsa and, accordingly, the meaning ‘gololeditsa’ in the word gololed are labeled as colloquial uses. The author believes that characteristic of some stylistic labels marking substandard vocabulary is the syncretism of their functions: they serve, on the one hand, to designate the subsystem to which a given word belongs, on the other hand, their function is to warn the dictionary user against the word usage that does not correspond to how a given word is used in any field — a branch of science, business documents, etc.