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ANTHROPOCENTRIC PRINCIPLE IN ONOMASTIC NOMINATION

ANTHROPOCENTRIC PRINCIPLE IN ONOMASTIC NOMINATION


Author:  V.V. Robustova

Affiliation:  Lomonosov Moscow State University

Abstract:  Anthropocentricity of discourse has been studied for several years. A person’s perception, the reality construction in the person’s mind goes through the system of collective and individual knowledge. Nominating (name giving) function is one of the most important and it represents the anthropocentric principle of language nomination and onomastic nomination in particular. 135 bar names in Alaska, USA were studied. We analyzed the influence of the anthropocentric principle on the name construction process, the main cognitive mechanism of naming and the subjective principle of onomastic nomination.

Keywords:  onomastics, subjective principle of onomastic naming, anthropocentrism, cognitive and functional approach

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Pages:  591-599

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