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Nicknames and culture: Analysing anthroponymic nicknames, reflecting cultural realia

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Publication: Numele și numirea. Actele Conferinței Internaționale de Onomastică. Ediția a II-a: Onomastica din spațiul public actual, p. 831
ISBN:978-606-543-343-4
Editors:Oliviu Felecan
Publisher:Editura Mega, Editura Argonaut
Place:Cluj-Napoca
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Abstract:[Nicknames and culture: Analysing antroponymic nicknames, reflecting cultural realia]
The paper focuses on exploring nicknames of persons and their potential to reflect realia of a culture. The term ‘realia’ is understood as: 1) an object of extralinguistic reality, specific to a particular culture; 2) a lexeme, naming this object.
The analysis of over 6,000 British and American antroponymic nicknames revealed the following groups of extralinguistic realia that nicknames fix:
1) objects of material culture: celebrities, geographical, urban, ethnographic objects, e.g. Washington Monument (tall);
2) phenomena, reflecting mental aspects of culture, its stereotypes, e.g. greediness as attributed to the nickname Pig in English-speaking cultures but lacking in the Russian culture.
Key words:nomination, nickname, realia, culture
Language: English
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165George Lakoff, Mark JohnsonMetaphors we live byThe University of Chicago Press1980; 2003html

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