
Surname as a text-forming factor of dialect text
Author(s) -
Kateryna Hlukhovtseva
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
lìngvìstika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2227-2631
DOI - 10.12958/2227-2631-2020-1-42-16-27
Subject(s) - linguistics , meaning (existential) , interpretation (philosophy) , vocabulary , class (philosophy) , speech community , psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , psychotherapist
The article analyzes the structure of the East Slobozhansk dialect text, which motivates the origin of the nickname. The author argues that dialect texts on the origin, interpretation and history of rural nicknames have a similar structure, which allows in the text ‘origin of the nickname’ as a model of a separate class of texts with hierarchically organized prototype features (semiotic, structural, intentional, pragmatic and others) identify the following semantic and structural parts: nickname, word-motivator, motivational-interpretative text, additional evidence of the person, narrator, etc. The first two parts are usually required. Others may be either completely absent or characterized by varying degrees of detail. The motivational text usually provides a wide range of evidence about the features of mental traits, traditions, beliefs, preferences of the language community. Motivators of rural nicknames can be words of proprial vocabulary (name of father, mother, surname, reduced-loving forms of names of the bearer of a nickname, surnames of known actors, names of radio or TV programs) or appellation (names of birds, animals, any general names or derived adjectives, tokens used in children's speech, dialectisms, artificially created words, etc.). When a nickname occurs, there is a metaphorical rethinking of the meaning of the appellation. Texts about the origin of nicknames produced by a dialect carrier are based on the pretext (a certain event or situation in the life of the language community, which became the basis for the emergence of its own name; individual traits of a member of the language community, etc.). The macrotext „nickname” is a synthesis of thematic-semantic, pragmatic and functional-stylistic factors. It represents the intentions of the author, ie the purpose of creating the text of the nickname, the personal characteristics of the author, the nature of addressing. Most nicknames are characterized by stylistic and semantic significance, often crudely expressive. Therefore, the text, which explains the origin of the nickname, is marked mainly by a negative connotation, the center of which is the nickname itself, and on the periphery there are tokens that complement, clarify, express the nickname and the word motivator.