ACTUALITY OF COMPILING LINGUOCULTURAL SPECIALIZED DICTIONARIES OF NEOLOGISMS (ON THE BASIS OF LINGUISTIC INNOVATIONS INTO THE SOCIOCULTURAL SPHERE “HEALTH CARE” IN AMERICAN ENGLISH)

Abstract

The article aims at substantiating actuality of compiling bilingual linguocultural specialized learner’s dictionaries of English neologisms for students of English philology and translation departments of foreign languages faculties. Giving examples of particular innovative American English units of the sociocultural sphere “health care”, which have integrated into the modern English customary usage in the course of the last decades, it sets the task to demonstrate their vast involvement into the English communicative space, however, being not registered in the corpora of a number of autoritative learner’s dictionaries’ editions for non-native speakers of English. . Being a sequel to a number of studies into innovative language phenomena as a subject of linguocultural lexicography, the article deals with the problem of dictionary typology theory in correlation with the opportunity of compiling a specialized dictionary of a mixed type. The author suggests a view upon language innovations, not yet fixed in the most common explanatory dictionaries for learners of English, as an object of lexicographic description. Analyzed are quite a few examples of neologisms of the sociocultural sphere “health care”, which occurred in American English in the last two decades and have become commonly used due to their wide distribution in online editions. An accent has been put on the relevance of compiling small-size special purpose dictionaries-glossaries for students of departments of translation aiming at representing new linguistic units on grounds of their actuality and communicative expediency within the modern English language discourse. Conclusion is made of relevance of compiling learner’s dictionaries of modern English language innovations with the purpose of enhancing students’ linguistic and communicative competence. As a perspective of further research compiling of syllabus-consistent learner’s ideographic mono- and bilingual dictionaries both in print and e-format is suggested.