Author lexicography and a theoretical evaluation on author dictionaries prepared in Turkey

Author dictionaries, which called "author lexicography" and "writer lexicography" in Western literature and "pisatel'skaya lexicographyya" and "avtorskaya lexicography" in the Russian lexicography tradition, are a type of dictionary that is included as a subgenre in general dictionary typology, which has many examples both in the world and in Turkey. Unlike general dictionary definitions and applications, the spread of application examples with distinctive characteristics related to "author dictionaries" has revealed the fact that there is a need for theoretical studies related to this field of application. To meet this need, many studies have been carried out outside Turkey on topics such as the history, purposes, methods, macro and microstructure, typology of author dictionaries, and theories and methods have been tried to be determined. Although there are many examples of authors' dictionaries in Turkey, it is seen that there are some confusions about naming and some problems in practice. The reason for this uncertainty about the author dictionary practices in Turkey is that the components that make up the author dictionary do not have a certain parameter. In this thesis study, firstly, theoretical studies related to the author dictionary outside Turkey were examined, then both the examples of author dictionaries in the West and the practices in Turkey were examined to create mega, macro and microstructures of author dictionaries.