Concept of the Dictionary of Mursko Središće

This paper discusses the concept of the <i>Dictionary of Mursko Središće</i> by Đuro Blažeka and Grozdana Rob (Faculty of Teacher Education, Zagreb, 2014). The paper describes some of the lexicographical methods by which raw materials are converted into a scientific dictionary (removal of inappropriate material, choice of exemplifications, archelexemes, the grammatical part of dictionary entries, stylistic guidelines, treatment of synonyms and variants) as well as all further research that must be done to this end. The new term expressive <i>sentence confirmation</i> is introduced as a lexicographical value in and of itself, which differs from collocations and phraseological units and should be introduced into the dictionary in addition to the simple exemplification of lexemes. It is concluded that cooperation between amateurs (collectors of lexicological material) and scholars presents the best solution by which to write concise dictionaries of local speeches that include a wide variety of archaic vocabulary and a large number of examples of the expressive use of vocabulary in communicatively specific situations.