Anthroponyms and Ethnonyms as Markers of the City Identity
https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2024-23-9-33-43
Abstract
Purpose. The article studies peculiarities of anthroponyms and ethnonyms in the city landscape. The purpose of the work is to analyze these components from the point of view of integral approach. The empirical material includes official and unofficial names of Moscow and Chelyabinsk received by continuous sampling from the city Internet sites, literary work illustrations, dictionaries.
Results. Attributive phrases with anthroponyms and ethnonyms dominate in the analyzed minor place names. Anthroponyms and ethnonyms concretize the place, the attitude to city objects. Negative or ironical connotations are typical of unofficial minor place names with anthroponyms, while ethnonyms in unofficial minor place names are of-ten neutral. The names of famous politicians, mayors, governors often become the source of transonymization which reflects critical attitude of the city residents to their activity. Abbreviation and wrong usage of the names of admin-istration representatives help create negative connotations of the minor place name.
Conclusion. The authors argue that transonymization of anthroponyms in the city linguistic landscape results in the lack of understanding of such minor place names by non-residents, but such rethought nominations of the city objects and phenomena are clear for the residents even when the inefficient representative of the city or region administration leaves the office. On the other hand, mainly the old and middle generations of the city residents recognize and use minor place names with ethnonyms.
Supporting agencies: The study was carried out with financial support of the Russian Science Foundation Fund and Chelyabinsk Region, project № 22-18-20022, https://rscf.ru/project/22-18-20022/.
About the Authors
S. A. Pitina
Chelyabinsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Svetlana A. Pitina, Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor
Scopus Author ID 57193741292;
WoS Researcher ID AAC-9362-2020;
RSCI Author ID 661982
Chelyabinsk
E. V. Kharchenko
South Ural State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena V. Kharchenko, Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor
RSCI Author ID 118841
Chelyabinsk
References
1. Azaryahu M. The Power of Commemorative Street Names. Environment and Planning D-society & Space, 1996, vol. 14 (3), pp. 311–330.
2. Borodina M. A. Dialekty ili regional’nye yazyki? [Dialects or regional languages?]. Voprosy Yazykoznaniya [Questions of Language Studies], 1982, vol. 5, pp. 29–38. (in Russ.)
3. David Ja. Commemorative Place Names – Their Specificity and Problems. Names, 2011, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 199–213.
4. Erofeeva T. I., Shustova S. V. Lexical Vernacular in the Speech of Literary Language Residents in Perm Region. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2. Yazykoznanie [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. Linguistics], 2020, vol. 19 (4), pp. 42–51. DOI 10.15688/jvolsu2.2020.4.4
5. Golikova T. A. Ofitsial’nye vs neofitsial’nye godonimy Moskvy: modeli transonimizatsii [Official vs. unofficial godonyms of Moscow: models of transonymization]. Nauchnyi Dialog [Scientific dialog], 2014, vol. 9 (13), pp. 24–36. (in Russ.)
6. Golomidova M. V. Gorodskie toponimy v aspekte translyatsii regional’noi identichnosti: keis goroda Ufy [Urban place names as a means of manifesting regional identity: The case of Ufa city]. Voprosy onomastiki [Onomastics questions], 2022, vol. 19 (1), pp. 160–179. (in Russ.) DOI 10.15826/vopr_onom.2022.19.1.008
7. Golomidova M. V. Imyatvorchestvo v ergonimii: traditsii vs. aktual’nye trendy [Name creation in ergonymy: traditions vs. actual trends]. In: Gridina T. A. (ed.). Lingvistika kreativa – 2 [Linguistics of creative – 2]. Ekaterinburg, Ural State Pedagogical Uni. Press, 2012, pp. 63–72. (in Russ.)
8. Issers O. S. Lingvokognitivnye osnovaniya kreativnykh reshenii v neiminge [Linguo-cognitive grounds for creative naming]. Cognitive Studies of Language, 2017, no. 30, pp. 821–824. (in Russ.)
9. Krivoshchapova Yu. A., Goryaev S. O. “Kamennye” ulitsy Ekaterinburga [“Stone” streets of Ekaterinburg]. Voprosy onomastiki [Onomastics questions], 2022, vol. 19 (2), pp. 197–207. (in Russ.) DOI 10.15826/vopr_onom.2022.19.2.023
10. Larin B. A. O lingvisticheskom izuchenii goroda [On Linguistic study of the city]. In: Larin B. A. Istoriya russkogo yazyka i obshchee yazykoznanie (Izbrannye raboty) [History of the Russian language and general linguistics (Selected works)]. Moscow, Prosveshchenie Publ., 1977, pp. 175–189. (in Russ.)
11. Mikhailyukova N. V. Yazykovoi obraz sovremennogo goroda [Language image of the modern city]. Vladivostok, Far East Federal Uni. Press, 2017, 360 p. (in Russ.)
12. Norman B. Yu. “Kreativ” govoryashchego vs “kreativ” slushayushchego: kompromiss vzaimoponimaniya [“Creativity” of the speaker vs “creativity” of the listener: compromise of mutual understanding]. In: Gridina T. A. (ed.). Lingvistika kreativa – 4 [Linguistics of creative – 4]. Ekaterinburg, Ural State Pedagogical Uni. Press, 2018, pp. 174–213. (in Russ.)
13. Pitina S. A., Kharchenko E. V. Creativity of Regionalisms on the Level of Word Building. Philological Class, 2022, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 67–75. DOI 10.51762/1FK-2022-27-04-6
14. Pitina S. A., Taskaeva A. V. Nazvaniya pamyatnykh ob''ektov Chelyabinskoi oblasti kak sostavlyayushchaya geroicheskoi paradigmy [Regional names of commemorative objects of Chelyabinsk region as part of heroic paradigm]. Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University, 2021, no. 9 (445), pp. 120–127. (in Russ.) DOI 10.47475/1994-2796-2021-10917
15. Ponomarenko I. N. Ergonimikon Krasnodara: ot nominatsii k kommunikatsii [Krasnodar ergonomicon: from nomination to communication]. Kommunikativnye issledovaniya [Communication studies], 2019, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 82–92. (in Russ.)
16. Popov R. V. Gorodskie lokalizmy v regional’noi rechi Severodvinska [City localisms in the regional speech of Severodvinsk]. Philology. Theory & Practice, 2019, no. 4. (in Russ.) DOI 10.30853/filnauki.2019.4.35
17. Prokurovskaya N. A. Gorod v zerkale svoego yazyka (na yazykovom materiale g. Izhevska) [City in the mirror of its language (on the language material of Izhevsk]. Izhevsk, Udmurt Uni. Press, 1996, 244 p. (in Russ.)
18. Razumov R. V. Pretsedentnye onimy v neofitsial’nom gorodskom onomastikone [Precedent onyms in unofficial city onomasticon]. Yaroslavskii Pedagogicheskii Vestnik [Yaroslavl Pedagogical Bulletin], 2021, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 169–172. (in Russ.)
19. Rezvukhina Yu. A. Regionalizm: k opredeleniyu ponyatiya [Regionalism: to the definition of the notion]. Interekspo Geo Sibir’, 2015, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 84–90. (in Russ.)
20. Yunakovskaya А. А. “Yazyk goroda” kak lingvisticheskaya problema [“Language of the city” as a linguistic problem]. Herald of Omsk University, 2011, no. 3, pp. 193–197. (in Russ.)
21. Yunakovskaya А. А. “Yazyk goroda” kak ob''ekt izucheniya (itogi i perspektiva) [“Language of the city” as an object of study (results and perspectives). Omskii nauchnyi vestnik [Omsk Scientific Bulletin], 2006, no. 9 (47), pp. 252–254. (in Russ.)
Review
For citations:
Pitina S.A., Kharchenko E.V. Anthroponyms and Ethnonyms as Markers of the City Identity. Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology. 2024;23(9):33-43. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2024-23-9-33-43
Views:
153
Email this article 