CAŁA TA LEKSYKOGRAFIA
ALL THAT LEXICOGRAPHY

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents selected problems of contemporary unilingual lexicography. The author claims that lexicography is one of the few linguistic domains of interest to ordinary users of language. Dictionaries reflect the common knowledge, the world view and life philosophy of a given language community. They are an inexhaustible source of information on a given collective consciousness. Among correctly delimited and registered lexical units, one can locate items which define the social identity and draw distinctions between given cultures. The pedagogical task of familiarizing students with advanced modern lexicography is by no means an easy one. Questions on how to delimit lexical units or how to adequately describe their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties are extremely complex. The author illustrates these difficulties by analysing the two Polish expressions: ten ca³y_ and ca³y ten_. She points out that definitions of the meaning of expressions in natural language result from a number of interpretive techniques, the most important of which is analysing the expressions in various semantically inconsistent sentences. The resulting lexicographic descriptions of the lexical items ten ca³y_ and ca³y ten_have been included in the paper.

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