AN ANALYSIS OF THE EMERGENCE OF THE TERM "DICTIONARY" IN WORLD LINGUISTICS

Dictionaries occupy a distinctive position within linguistic scholarship because of their essential role in facilitating cross-linguistic communication, analyzing grammatical structures, establishing language norms, shaping national consciousness, enriching speech, and influencing socio-political awareness. By the early twentieth century, dictionaries came to be acknowledged as a significant means of enhancing educational effectiveness, which led to the rise of a new branch in linguistics—educational lexicography. Consequently, specialized school dictionaries began to appear in developed nations and soon became an integral part of the educational system.