Abstract

 
 
 
 The purpose of the current study is to analyze common and distinctive features in the culturally marked meaning of modern English and Ukrainian eponyms. Culturally loaded background knowledge of eponyms gives access to the motivation of the eponymous semantic context. The eponyms of contemporary English and Ukrainian languages reflect internationally, nationally, socially linked information relevant to the cultural background. Eponymous terms have proved to represent the significant linguocultural potential as they verbalize definite quality, character feature, way of living or historic events from common or specific heritage of English and Ukrainian cultures. Appealing to people whose names or derivatives transmit certain cultural associations English and Ukrainian eponyms store background motivating information about real people, Biblical characters, gods in Greek and Roman mythology, literary and movie personages, toys etc.
 
 
 
Highlights
IntroductionConsidering the profound connection between language and culture [1; 2] focusing on the semantics of eponyms in contemporary languages from the linguocultural perspective [3, p. 419] appears to be of indisputable scientific significance making it possible to identify and analyze the linguistic and cultural characteristics of a particular nation’s lexis, its ethnic consciousness and thinking, and to describe the cultural components in its semantics
Considering the profound connection between language and culture [1; 2] focusing on the semantics of eponyms in contemporary languages from the linguocultural perspective [3, p. 419] appears to be of indisputable scientific significance making it possible to identify and analyze the linguistic and cultural characteristics of a particular nation’s lexis, its ethnic consciousness and thinking, and to describe the cultural components in its semantics. Such an investigation angle gives the researcher a reason to characterize the problems under consideration relevantly to the language and culture study [5; 6], cognitive linguistics [6; 7; 8] and the theory of intercultural communication [1; 2]
Eponyms are viewed as a mental complex of meaningful knowledge about the structure and semantic motivation of naming, as well as data associated with the name and being involved in the eponym [9, c. 21-22]
Summary
Considering the profound connection between language and culture [1; 2] focusing on the semantics of eponyms in contemporary languages from the linguocultural perspective [3, p. 419] appears to be of indisputable scientific significance making it possible to identify and analyze the linguistic and cultural characteristics of a particular nation’s lexis, its ethnic consciousness and thinking, and to describe the cultural components in its semantics. 419] appears to be of indisputable scientific significance making it possible to identify and analyze the linguistic and cultural characteristics of a particular nation’s lexis, its ethnic consciousness and thinking, and to describe the cultural components in its semantics. Such an investigation angle gives the researcher a reason to characterize the problems under consideration relevantly to the language and culture study [5; 6], cognitive linguistics [6; 7; 8] and the theory of intercultural communication [1; 2]. Eponyms are viewed as a mental complex of meaningful knowledge about the structure and semantic motivation of naming, as well as data associated with the name and being involved in the eponym [9, c. 21-22]
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