DOI: 10.18503/2658-3186-2022-6-4-52-56
Abstract. The problem of proper names, their origin and history is still of interest to the general public. Anthroponyms are of paramount importance in any language. Personal names are a special part of the language lexical system, within which they function and at the same time respond to various changes of the society. Anthroponymic units reflect both language changes and the historical and cultural development and character of a particular people. In the article the authors compare the anthroponymic systems of the German and Russian languages. Although Russian and German belong to different, narrower language families, the two languages have much in common in anthroponymy due to their primordial closeness within the Indo-European language. A personal name is a linguistic sign in which there is a strong relationship between semantics and pragmatics, so the study was carried out taking into account sociolinguistic and sociocultural aspects. Anthroponyms are common with all world languages. Despite the apparent similarity of the existing anthroponymic systems in different languages, each nation has its own naming traditions, reflecting customs, religious beliefs or aesthetic ideas. Thus, they can serve for the historical study of people life, like other cultural, literary and language monuments. The authors highlight semantic analysis issues of personal names. This aspect of anthroponymy is debatable, and this determines the relevance of the paper. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between the German and Russian anthroponymics, from both linguistic and sociological point of view. The practical relevance of the work is in the fact that the information obtained can serve as the basis for further comparative studies of anthroponymic material, and can also be used in pedagogical practice in German or East Slavic anthroponymy.
Keywords: personal name, onym, anthroponymicon, semantics, German onomasticon, Russian onomasticon.
Authors
Olesya V. Kisel – PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Foreign Languages in Engineering Department Institute of Humanitarian Education, Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University (NMSTU), Magnitogorsk, Russia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Angelina I. Dubskikh, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Foreign Languages in Engineering Department Institute of Humanitarian Education, Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University (NMSTU), Magnitogorsk, Russia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Anna V. Butova - PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Foreign Languages in Engineering Department Institute of Humanitarian Education, Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University (NMSTU), Magnitogorsk, Russia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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For citation
Kisel O. V., Dubskikh A. I., Butova A.V. Semantic Analysis of German and Russian Personal Names, Gumanitarno-pedagogicheskie issledovaniya [Humanitarian and pedagogical Research], 2022, vol. 6, no 4, pp. 52–56.