Культурная специфика русских и кыргызских антропонимов [Articol]

Abstract

In the onomastic field of any language, anthroponyms constitute the core elements. These include personal names in their official (full), familiar (short), diminutive-affective (diminutive-meliorative), and augmentative-pejorative (augmentative-pejorative) forms, middle and subsequent names, patronymics, andronyms, gynonyms, patronyms, surnames, middle names, nicknames, pseudonyms, nicknames, cryptonyms, etc. Of these, only given names have a high degree of individualization, as every person has one. Given names are chosen from an established list—from common nouns with positive semantics, based on religious beliefs. Surnames and patronymics are determined by kinship ties. Nicknames, monikers, and pseudonyms are secondary and may not be held by all members of a community. Modern Russian and Kyrgyz anthroponymy speaks not so much of the language as of the culture of its speakers. In anthroponyms, the national and the international, the national and the foreign-language, may merge and interact. Names perform an important legal function—the identification of a person in society.