Ideographic dictionaries in the practice of teaching linguistic disciplines

Abstract

Dictionaries with systematic vocabulary by thematic or semantic classes are in demand in school and university practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language, Russian as a non-native language, and foreign languages. Such dictionaries can be used to replenish the students' vocabulary and theoretically comprehend the vocabulary as a system of interacting word classes. Ideographic dictionaries serve as a means of studying linguistic conceptualization and categorization of the world and, therefore, they become a source of linguistic and cultural information relevant to intercultural communication. Ideographic dictionaries are active type dictionaries, which contributes to the implementation of communicative tasks in the learning process. The principle of consistency of ideographic dictionaries corresponds to the organization of the person's cognitive system and the mental lexicon. The article discusses the concept of ideographic dictionaries created by scientists of the Ural semantic school under the guidance of L. G. Babenko. This concept is based on the denotative approach to the formation of word classes. Words in the same class are interpreted through a basic identifier, for example, dictionary interpretations of all behavioral verbs begin with the identifier 'behave'. The ideographic principle allows to avoid the circle in the interpretation of words. The macrostructure of the ideographic dictionary is organized according to the principles of hierarchy and intersection of semantic classes. The study of the ideographic dictionary is considered in the aspect of its use in the educational process in two directions: in the study of the systematic language organization and for the development of communication skills. Examples of tasks aimed at the formation of professional competencies of a philologist student are presented. © 2019 LLC Ecological Help. All rights reserved.