Contemporary academic neography: problems and prospects

The article is devoted to researching different problems of contemporary academic neography (neological lexicography) and possible ways of their solving. The aim of the article is the description of the state of academic and semi-academic lexicography from the point of view of contemporary linguistics. The special attention is paid to the initial problems of the Russian neology, the possible ways of their overcoming, and the "risk areas" of the present neography. Positive and negative trends of contemporary academic lexicography are opened up mostly on the material of the last and the most authoritative neological dictionary (New words and meanings. Dictionary based on materials of press and literature of 90 th in 2 vol. (ed.) E. A. Levashov. Saint-Petersburg: D. Bulanin’s Publishing House, 2009. Vol. 1.). The article concludes about the main problems of the development of Russian neological lexicography and their suggested solutions (above all, the using of electronic and online databases, the development of a new concept neological dictionaries and the creation a complete electronic neological database).