I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

: author’s anthroponym, poetonym, secondary nomination, stable comparison, metaphor

The article examines some regularities of the process of the author’s anthroponyms appeal in the process of their functioning in literary and journalistic texts. The study was carried out on the material of three functionally similar images – Plyushkin, Gobsek, and Harpagon. The use of these words in the function of the evaluation characteristics of a person, their use as metaphors is analyzed. Stable comparisons are also considered, in the structure of which the above-mentioned anthroponyms function as a figurative basis. At the same time poetonyms gradually acquire the ability to express concepts, become “predicate” names. The author comes to the conclusion that these images express not only the nuclear sign of extreme avarice, but also a number of other qualities; they can have not only a negative, but also a positive connotation in the text. The article reveals the general and special features in the use of images of avarice: they are compared by contextual semantics, by frequency, by compatibility. Functioning as part of stable comparisons and as commonly used metaphors are important factors in the gradual transformation of anthroponyms into appellatives. Poetonyms, becoming signs of secondary nomination, undergo semantic evolution – from identifying semantics to predicative semantics. Such dynamics, on the one hand, is determined by the use of nuclear semantic features in the texts of the nominative units Plyushkin, Gobsek, and Harpagon, on the other hand, by the actualization of peripheral features of these anthroponyms.

Огольцева Екатерина Васильевна – доктор филологических наук, доцент, профессор кафедры русского языка Московского педагогического государственного университета, г. Москва, Россия; профессор кафедры славянской филологии Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета, г. Москва, Россия, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6439-0130, tertiumcomp@mail.ru