THE ANTHROPONYMICON PECULIARITIES IN THE N.V. GOGOL’S NOVELLA “VIY”

Abstract

: The article analyzes the peculiarities of the anthroponyms’ functioning in N.V. Gogol’s novella “Viy”. The relevance of the research is determined by the attention of modern linguistics to the problems of linguistic poetics, the growing interest in onomastic studies in terms of the integrated paradigm of linguistic knowledge aimed at studying the stylistic functioning of literary onyms as constituents of the writer’s idiostyle. The main purpose of this study is to determine the communicative-pragmatic focus of the anthroponyms in the N.V. Gogol’s novella, to identify their structural and semantic types, the typology of nominations. Methodological framework: quantitative, structural, descriptive, comparative analysis, stylistic-contextual analysis. An important role is played by the stylistic affiliation of the original appellative, word-formation tools used to create proper names, its phonetic composition, as well as the determinants that accompany the anthroponym. It was proved that the anonymous characters in the Gogol’s novella have meaning-forming potentials, which provide opportunities for different interpretations of the image. In the novella “Viy”, the role of context in the formation of stylistic semantics of naming varies depending on the significance of character and frequency of the anthroponym use. The practical significance of the results: the collection and all-round interpretation of onyms in the works of N.V. Gogol will provide materials for the future “Dictionary of Ukrainian literary onomastics of the XIXXX centuries” and special courses on various aspects of N.V. Gogol’s writings.