Abstract.

THE EXPERIENCE OF CREATING A DICTIONARY OF PROPER NAMES FROM POETIC TEXTS (BASED ON THE WORKS BY VASYL’ STUS)

Ella Kravchenko

Department of General and Applied Linguistics and Slavonic Philology, Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine

Abstract

Background: The most important problem of lexicography remains the creation of dictionaries of onym vocabulary as an essential addition to the dictionary of the writer’s language. The structure of an article with a poetonym, the explication of connections and relations of the onym unit presented in the dictionary with other proper names of the studied text, the participation of a poetonym in the creation of the text imagery requires a comprehensive discussion.

Purpose: The purpose of the analysis is to improve the theory and practice of onymography by creating the dictionary of proper names from poetic texts by Vasyl’ Stus, which contains all nomina­tive units of his manuscripts, fair copies and draft.

Results: The proposed structure of the dictionary contains the following components: a com­plete naming paradigm for the poetic object, the encyclopedic information, the onomapoetic commen­tary, and a necessary and sufficient context. An innovative component of an article with a poetonym is the microsystems of the poetonymosphere.

Discussion: The study of proper names as significant components of poetic speech contributes to a holistic idea of the linguistic personality and the dynamic linguistic picture of the writer’s world. The presentation of onyms in dictionaries allows one to evaluate the ideological and artistic content of a particular work as well as determine its role in the complete corpus of the author’s texts. The compilation of such dictionaries contributes to the improvement of the classification of poetic func­tions of onyms, the methods of unifying the onomapoetic commentary, the explication of ways of interpreting the contextual semantics of names, etc.

Keywords: proper name, connotonym, context, poetonym, protoonym, function, text.

Vitae

Ella Kravchenko is a Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor of Department of General and Applied Linguistics and Slavonic Philology at Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University. Her areas of research interests include literary onomastics, poetonymology and poetonymography, lexicology, lin­guistic poetics, text linguistics, intertextuality.

Correspondence: ella.krav4enko@gmail.com