Русские прозвища как объект лексикографии

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the description of modern Russian nicknames, which are a special type of words and phraseology, uniting functional-semantic haracteristics of appellatives and proper names. The definition of this circle of lexics as well as its categorical features and classification are discussed. The authors show in detail the parameters forming the basis of the above-mentioned vocabulary of contemporary Russian nicknames: the corpus of the dictionary, grammatical and stylistic characteristics, typology of definitions, etymological explanations. Wide chronological (the language of XIX–XX-th century), dialectal and socialectal frames of the described material are given.