Slavic Railway Onomastics. Review of the book: Tomasik, P. Nazewnictwo kolejowe: na materiale języka polskiego, rosyjskiego i czeskiego [Railway Onomastics: Evidence from Polish, Russian, and Czech]. Bydgoszcz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego, 2016. [PDF]
The reviewed book examines Polish, Czech, Slovak (partially), and Russian proper names of various onomastic classes related to the sphere of railway: namely, anthroponyms (especially nicknames), names of animals, names of railway terminals, stations and ...
Vasily I. Suprun
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Variable Forms of Naming in Literary Texts of Nikolay Gumilyov: Poetical and Semantic Aspect
The article deals with poetical and semantic aspects of the analysis of variable onym nominations in literary texts of an eminent Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov.
Kseniya S. Fedotova
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A Functional Analysis of Proper Names in The Travelogue of Ebrahim Beyg and Their Representation in the Arabic Translation Based on Gibka’s Model and Fernández’s Procedures [PDF]
Proper names in travel narratives are not merely referential devices used to identify individuals, places, or institutions. Rather, they may perform functions that extend beyond identification, conveying layers of meaning, identity, ideology, and ...
Melika Afroz +2 more
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Bitwa pod Brenną czy pod Starymi Pupami? O nazwach bitew i wojen w polskich powieściach fantasy
Battle of Brenna or battle of old Bottocks? War and battle names in Polish fantasy novels Proper names are a very important element of language in every literary work, especially in fantasy novels.
Natalia Gorczowska
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Interprecedent Semiotic Space, or When the Cannons are Heard, the Muses aren’t Silent [PDF]
The paper focuses on the description of chrematonyms as precedent names of Russian arms domain, developing a special semiotic space in the digital media news discourse and social networks represented in various code formats, readers and participants of ...
Tatiana Yu. Tameryan, Amina M. Shaipova
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PECULIARITIES OF PROPER NAMES OF MODERN CINEMA FILMS FUNCTIONING
Статтю присвячено вивченню власних назв художніх фільмів крізь призму функціонування. Досліджувану тему актуалізовано низкою чинників, із-поміж яких – зацікавленість мовознавців у процесах номінації кінофільмів, зокрема активізацією типологічних досліджень власних назв кінофільмів як своєрідних щодо функцій, структури, деривації, семантико-мотиваційної
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The Specifics of Functioning of the Personal Proper Name
The article researches the specifics of how personal proper names function in the Russian and the Chinese paroemia genres. Proverbs and sayings are traditionally considered paroemia because they represent a collective evaluation of various situations of life.
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The functions of toponyms in the works by K. F. Zhakov [PDF]
Introduction. In Finno-Ugric studies, as well as in Komi linguistics, the language of fiction is insufficiently studied, including the functions of toponyms in prose.
Galina K. Lisovskaya +1 more
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Names of Demons in the South Slavic Versions of St Sisinnius’s Apocryphal Prayer [PDF]
The paper represents the first full-scale research on the names of demons encountered in the apocryphal prayers of St Sisinnius and Archangel Michael known from the South Slavic manuscript tradition. The chronological framework of the studied manuscripts
Tatyana A. Agapkina
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Proper names used as modifiers: a comprehensive functional analysis [PDF]
My central concern is the special use of proper names in the English noun phrase first discussed by Rosenbach (2006, 2007, 2010; Koptjevskaja-Tamm & Rosenbach 2005): proper names which are used as modifiers with an identifying function, e.g.theBushadministration(‘Which administration does the noun phrase refer to? The one headed by Bush’).
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