Introduction, I. Lexicography and the Study of Meaning (Lexicography as an Academic Discipline, Metalexicography and Linguistic Description of the Lexicon, Summary), II. The Scope of Ideography (Why the Term "Ideographic Dictionary"?, General Principles of Lemmata Organization within the Word List, Borderline Cases: analogical, pictorial, and associative dictionaries, Aims and Objectives of Metaideography, Summary), III. The Typology of the Existing Ideographic Dictionaries (Preliminaries, The Thesaural Approach to the Classificatory Scheme Design, The Thematic Approach to the Classificatory Scheme Design, The Systemic Approach to the Classificatory Scheme Design, Problems and Controversies of Metaideography, Summary), IV. Developments in Linguistic Semantics and their Significance for Ideography (Field Theory and Ideography, Categorization, Framing of Concepts, and Ideography, Everyday Concepts, Expert Concepts, and Worldview, Frames, Scripts, and Related Theoretical Constructs, Summary), V. Pedagogical Metaideography: the design of a learner's ideographic dictionary of the general vocabulary (The Scope of Pedagogical Lexicography, The Scope of Pedagogical Ideography, The Unit of Description in Pedagogical Ideography, The Learner's Ideographic Dictionary of the General Vocabulary, The Ideographic Dictionary - Communicative Grammar Interface, Explication of Meaning in a Learner-oriented Ideographic Dictionary, Summary), VI. Applications of Theoretical Semantic Research in Ideographic Description of the Lexicon (Lexicographic Investigation in Ideography: problems and perspectives, Lexicographic Investigation in Ideography: result and their representation, Summary), Conclusion: perspectives and prospectives, Bibliography (Lexicographic Publications).