Abstract
The research covers semantic and pragma-stylistic features of onomastic units in German-language mass media, as well as the peculiarities of their functioning and impact on the reader, their prospects in the process of teaching a foreign language (in the terms of stylistic analysis of media texts).
Highlights
It is known that linguistic positioning in the language system and extralinguistic factors, which influence the semantic structure formation of proper names (PNs) and their functioning, account for peculiar features of any onomastic material
In the newspaper Die Welt (12/11/2019) we can witness an onym in the title Die vereinigten Alten von Amerika
Semantical-stylistic transformations of PNs in texts lead to the fact that such items become undoubted signs of textual reality
Summary
It is known that linguistic positioning in the language system and extralinguistic factors, which influence the semantic structure formation of proper names (PNs) and their functioning, account for peculiar features of any onomastic material. The following idea of V.A. Nikonov is widely recognized: “Proper names shape a certain subsystem in the language where even basic language laws are refracted and its own patterns appear, which do not exist in the language outside this subsystem” [1]. Superanskaya points out the substantial nature of PNs: “Even the most “pure” linguistic study of names cannot go solely beyond the abilities of language, and linguists should always keep in mind extralingual associations of proper names. Social factors take the first place by right, being in close connection with history, politics, economy . Factors that determine ideology of the given society necessarily influence names” [2]
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