Sheyanova S. V., Kazaeva N. V. Anthroponymic Space in the Prose by Tamara Bargova

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doi: 10.15507/2076-2577.016.2024.03.298-309

Anthroponymic Space in the Prose by Tamara Bargova

Svetlana V. Sheyanova
Nina V. Kazaeva
National Research Mordovia State University, Saransk, Russia

Introduction. The study of poetic anthroponymy is not an active research strategy in Finno-Ugric studies. Questions regarding the semantic potential of a character’s name within the content-meaning structure of the text remain on the periphery of the research interest of national scholars. This article focuses on the anthroponymy in the prose by T. Bargova as the subject of special research. The aim of the study is to determine the functional-semantic features of anthroponyms and naming models in the author’s works.

Materials and Methods. The research material was the stories and novel “God, forgive me!“ by T. Bargova. The work uses such traditional methods of linguistic research as descriptive, functional-semantic, structural, comparative-historical, as well as such modern approaches to the study of literary text as interpretive and gender ones.

Results and Discussion. The authors determined the models and principles of naming and the structure of anthroponyms in the stories and novel “God, forgive me!“ by T. Bargova. It described and revealed the functions of anthroponyms in the content structure of the works, their role in reflecting the realities of modern and historical reality, and the reconstruction of the national model of the world. In the author’s works, anthroponyms become multifunctional components, perform text-forming, emotional-stylistic, evaluative, informational, conceptual functions, and convey a national flavor. The choice of the name and form of the anthroponym is determined by the chronotope of the work, the author’s axiological concept, the originality of the creative worldview and the specifics of female writing.

Conclusion. The conclusions made by the authors contribute to the development of poetic onomastics in Finno-Ugric linguistics and can be useful in the process of teaching philological disciplines at a university. The prospects for further research of the problem are related to the study of the functional semantics of anthroponyms in the works of other Mordovian writers.

Keywords: literary anthroponymy, anthroponym, naming model, semantics of a character’s name, anthroponym function, Tamara Bargova, modern Mordovian prose

Funding: The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 24-28-00098 “Mordovian women’s literature: specificity of the representation of the gender picture of the world, national and artistic originality”, https://rscf.ru/project/24-28-00098/.

Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

For citation: Sheyanova S.V., Kazaeva N.V. Anthroponymic Space in the Prose by Tamara Bargova. Finno-Ugric World. 2024;16(3):298–309. https://doi.org/10.15507/2076-2577.016.2024.03.298-309