HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

AESTHETIC ONOMASTICS IN A FRENCH ROMANTIC ART WORK (on the material of the novel by V. Hugo “Notre-Dame de Paris”)

2014. №3, pp. 85-93

Merkulova Nadezhda V. - Candidate of Philological Sciences, Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, 394006, Russia, Voronezh, 84 20-letia Oktiabria st., ndvv@mail.ru

The article studies the role and the functions of aesthetic onomastics in the text of a romantic work for the purpose of revealing its meaning - and styleforming capacity. The research is based on the key-onyms in the linguistic system of the romantic work by V. Hugo «Notre-Dame de Paris», which is a significant creation of the French literature. The main task of the work is to interpret the encoded into the personal name information according to the author’s idea which is accomplished with the use of linguostylistic, linguoaesthetical, linguo-culturological, semantic and semantico-stylistical, as well as contextual and intertextual types of analysis. The study identified the main mechanisms of realization of the functions, the characteristics and the connotations of onyms in the romantic work due to certain pragmastylistic properties of proper names, namely: enhancing the reader’s attention, suggestiveness, allusiveness and other. The scientific novelty and the significance of the results consist in filling some of the gaps in the general theory of literary onomastics.

Key words: имя собственное, оним, роман, романтическое произведение, художественный текст, эстетическая ономастика, proper name, onym, novel, romantic art work, literary text, aesthetic onomastics

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