Onomastic Concepts in German Football Fans’ Discourse (Based on the Communicative Domain «Fangesäenge»)

The article analyses onomastic potential of lyrics in German football fans’ songs. It gives a brief review of fundamental works on this issue in Russian and foreign (mostly German) linguistics, determines some constituent features of football fans’ discourse. It presents the classification of onyms, singles out respective classes of notions (ergonyms, anthroponyms, and toponyms) and their subclasses. The article describes specifics of onomastic space within the studied discourse: on the one hand, the article emphasizes quite a restricted amount of classes of proper nouns, on the other hand, it stresses the necessity to renew the contents in virtue of a number of factors – beginning with the change in the name of the home stadium up to new names among the authorities of the club, new transfers and so on. The paper applies complex methodologies including discourse, componential, conceptual analysis, classification, observation, description, lexicographical, contextual methods. As a perspective for the research, the author proposes considering this issue in the light of intercultural communication to identify universal and specific projections used by the representatives of this social group to construct the onomastic space.