Characteristics of Anthroponyms Essay

Theses of the scientific paper Semantic, mixer pragmatic and operating(a) characteristics of anthroponyms (based on the new(a) John Updike The Centaur) Viktoriya Melnychuk Khmelnytskyi regional MAN department Shepetivka educational mazy 1 form 11 Tarnavska Olena Myhaylivna, the candidate of philological sciences, associate professor of department of English linguistics of the Volynskiy national university named after Lesia Ukrainka.The purposeof this paperis to analyze anthroponyms, their semantic, social pragmatic and functional characteristics ofanthroponyms (based on the novelJohn UpdikeThe Centaur). The full communication, that is correct perception, evaluation and interpretation of information, is impossible without knowing the specific set of anthroponyms and their functions in language and text. The names of famous personalities, literature characters make up a significant part of knowledge, necessary for understanding and assessment of the culture different people.Theref ore, our research is relevant. The subject of the research is semantic, social pragmatic and functional characteristics ofanthroponyms (based on the novelJohn UpdikeThe Centaur). Anthroponomastics, a branch ofonomastics, is the study ofanthroponyms, the names ofhuman beings. Anthroponyms often keep abreast lexical elements that have dropped out of the standardlexiconof alanguage. The subdivisions of anthroponymy include given names, surnames, clan names, matronyms, patronyms, teknonyms, nicknames, ethnonyms.Allusion is the main frisk of the anthroponyms. Allusion is a brief reference to some to some literary or historical event commonly known. Allusion is a subtype of metaphor. Metaphor denotes expressing remaining on the basis of similarity of two objects the real object of quarrel and the one whose name is actually used. But there is only affinity, no real connection in the midst of the two. Most of anthroponyms in the novel John Updike The Centaur are the individual, which e xpressed their own names, surnames, status names and fare the nominative function.