Учебное пособие в систематизированном виде содержит необходимые для изучения курса лексикологии английского языка вспомогательные материалы: планы семинаров, определения основных понятий и терминов на английском и русском языках, темы курсовых

Pictorial [pik'to:ri9l] (visual) dictionary is an ideographic dictionary, containing graphic illustrations to all topics, e.g. Visual Dictionary On-line http://visual.merriam-webster.com
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Practical Assignment

1. 
   What is a dictionary from your point of view? What is it necessary for?
   
2. 
   What types of dictionaries do you know? What are the main types of dictionaries from your point of view? Why?
   
3. 
   Establish the typological features of 3 - 4 dictionaries of your choice. Make a table enumerating the differences between them.
   
4. 
   Describe the Oxford English Dictionary according to the scheme: its history, its editors, dictionary structure, structure of the word entry.
   
5. 
   Describe Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases according to the scheme: its history, its editors, dictionary structure, structure of the word entry.
   
6. 
   Speak about the father of American Lexicography Noah Webster and his dictionaries.
   
7. 
   Single out the peculiarities of the dictionary series initiated by A.S. Hornby.
   
8. 
   You are a dictionary-compiler. Choose lexical units necessaryfrom your point of view for inclusion in the dictionary: -aholic, Brangelina, e-, -ee, Euro- (combining form), Euro (adj, (informal) connected with Europe, especially the European Union), euro (n, the unit of money of some countries of the Euro­pean Union), flip-flop, freak, it-girl, heads and tails, nanotechnology, nonalcalinocetaceoaluminosocupreovitriolic, see-saw, tip-top, ugly duckling. State the principles upon which you have made your choice.
   

Theme 3
DICTIONARY STRUCTURE
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none,
and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.