PECULIARITIES OF ONOMASTIC VOCABULARY DESCRIPTION IN AN EDUCATIONAL LINGVOKRAEVEDCHESKY DICTIONARY

The article describes basic principles of educational lingvokraeved-chesky onomastic dictionary compiling with an anthropocentric orientation. The possibility of compiling such a vocabulary is considered with respect to Smolensk material. This paper presents a possible aProach to the selection of the vocabulary units to be included into the dictionary based, in the first place, on the objective indices of proper names significance. These figures were revealed by the study of modern Smolensk inhabitants’ regional onomastic background knowledge in the course of a large-scale association experiment (involving 1650 respondents) with preliminary questioning. On the basis of the frequency criterion in the structure of Smolensk region inhabitants’ onomastic background knowledge we have identified the nucleus, peripheral and unique reactions underlying the dictionary structure organized as the nucleus and periphery. The nucleus is formed by 12 onims relevant for all Smolensk region inhabitants (the index of frequency of reactions is given in the list): Dnepr (953), Cathedral of the Assumption (725), Fortified Wall (695), Y. A. Gagarin (596), M. I. Glinka (492), A. T. Twardowsky (466), Smolensk (345), M. V. Isakovsky (273), F. S. Kon’ (232), M. K. Tenisheva (166), N. I. Rylenkov (154), Vasily Terkin (124). The article contains the description of the macro-and microstructure of the dictionary under consideration.. In the dictionary macrostructure the majority of onims can be attributed to one of the two categories (either toponyms or anthroponyms), which correspond to two types of basic entries. A peculiar feature of the entry structure is its division into three zones: the subject information zone, the linguistic information zone and the suPlementary information zona. As an illustration, the entry on M. V. Isakovsky, whose name became part of the core background knowledge of Smolensk region inhabitants and calls the «Smolensk Russia nightingale». The need to combine conceptual-systemic and systemic-language interpretation in the dictionary units determines the combination of linguistic and encyclopaedic features in its structure.