Onomasiological dictionary in bilingual phraseology

Abstract

Onomasiological dictionaries are not very common in any language. In this dictionary, i.e. thesauri, lexemes are ordered by semantic criteria. There is very large need for well-organized onomasiological dictionaries in phraseology which can lead the user from meaning to expression. Though, the arrangement of multilingual units by significance is more complicated than monolingual ones and the author is faced withmany challenges in this area.We discuss specifically devised a thesaurilike system of Czech onomasiological dictionary, its metalanguage and definitions. The idiom, having its standardised form, often includes variants and should be explained in such a dictionary by its functional equivalent. This equivalent could consist of all 10 word classes and range between a single word and whole sentence. We could say that the possibilities of bilingual phraseology between Czech and Serbian languages are mainly far from exhausted.

Les dictionnaires onomasiologiques ne sont pas très répandus dans aucune langue. Il existe un très grand besoin de dictionnaires onomasiologiques bien organisés en phraséologie. Nous discutons spécifiquement du système thésaurus du dictionnaire onomasiologique tchèque, possibilités et défis du dictionnaire de phraséologie bilingue entre les langues tchèque et serbe.