Macrostructural parameters of unilingual Russian phraseological dictionaries

Abstract

The paper analyzes macrostructural parameters of unilingual Russian phraseological dictionaries beginning from the very first ones to the latest diachronically. The focus of the research is the process of selecting phraseological units, methods of their arranging in the dictionary, alphabetical and other indexes use, target user etc., and changes these parameters of dictionaries undergo. The above mentioned characteristics of dictionaries are considered to be part of their metalanguage.