Abstract

The article provides a historical analysis of the development of ideas about lexicography in Russian linguistics. The authors come to reasonable conclusions that 1) the term "lexicography" appeared in scientific and general use in the last third of the 19th century; 2) the content of the concept brought under this term developed in the direction from the applied aspect of this linguistic essence to the theoretical aspect and the totality of dictionaries of the given language; 3) in the last quarter of the XX century. lexicography is firmly entrenched in the science of language with the status of an autonomous branch of linguistics; 4) recently, she began to receive, in addition to the definition, a certain wider set of attributes.