Title: | Nicknames and culture: Analysing anthroponymic nicknames, reflecting cultural realia |
Author: | Anna Tsepkova |
Publication: | Numele și numirea. Actele Conferinței Internaționale de Onomastică. Ediția a II-a: Onomastica din spațiul public actual, p. 831 |
ISBN: | 978-606-543-343-4 |
Editors: | Oliviu Felecan |
Publisher: | Editura Mega, Editura Argonaut |
Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
Year: | 2013 |
Abstract: | [Nicknames and culture: Analysing antroponymic nicknames, reflecting cultural realia] The paper focuses on exploring nicknames of persons and their potential to reflect realia of a culture. The term ‘realia’ is understood as: 1) an object of extralinguistic reality, specific to a particular culture; 2) a lexeme, naming this object. The analysis of over 6,000 British and American antroponymic nicknames revealed the following groups of extralinguistic realia that nicknames fix: 1) objects of material culture: celebrities, geographical, urban, ethnographic objects, e.g. Washington Monument (tall); 2) phenomena, reflecting mental aspects of culture, its stereotypes, e.g. greediness as attributed to the nickname Pig in English-speaking cultures but lacking in the Russian culture. |
Key words: | nomination, nickname, realia, culture |
Language: | English |
Links: | pdf html |
Citations to this publication: 1
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