ONYMICON IN THE STRUCTURE OF OLEXANDR DOVZHENKO’S INDIVIDUAL STYLE (A CASE STUDY OF THE MOVIE-ESSAY «UKRAINE IN FLAMES»)

Journal Title: Записки з ономастики - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 19

Abstract

The article analyzes the proprial units’ functioning in the movie-essay «Ukraine in Flames», the peculiarities of the onyms’ semantic-and-stylistic features. The studies on the onomastic lexis of many belles-lettres works are still scarce in the Ukrainian linguistics. The relevance of our research is determined by the necessity of the detailed analysis of the Ukrainian authors’ onomastikon aimed at the studying of the onomastic components of the writer’s individual style. The choice of the topic for the research was guided by the lack of studies on the onomastic components of the Olexandr Dovzhenko’s works. We chose the movie-essay «Ukraine in Flames» as the study material and selected all the onyms with the help of the continuous sampling method. In our research we used descriptive method, methods of contextual and componential analysis of the onyms. The subject matter of the research is the language of the movie-essay, the scope of the research is the different types of onymic components that constitute the particular onomastic space of the movie-essay «Ukraine in Flames». The purpose of the presented research is the investigation of the onomastic space of the movie-essay «Ukraine in Flames», its functioning, and the study of the role and density of the proper names in the structure of the writer’s individual style. The Olexandr Dovzhenko’s movie-essay contains a wealth of onomastic material that is an indication of the writer’s talent, high intelligence, and great erudition. The specificity of the onomastic lexis functioning in the belles-lettres works, the peculiarities of the proper names choice are of great interest. O. Dovzhenko is remembered in history of the world culture as an outstanding film director, the talented writer, the author of the new literary genre — the movie-essay. In the Olexandr Dovzhenko’s movie-essay «Ukraine in Flames» the proper names are the powerful way of artistic nomination. The functioning of onyms is determined by the peculiarities of the studied works. Onyms are the significant feature of the O. Dovzhenko’s stylistical system, the powerful stylistic device that reveals the author’s conception.

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E. Boyeva

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E. Boyeva (2016). ONYMICON IN THE STRUCTURE OF OLEXANDR DOVZHENKO’S INDIVIDUAL STYLE (A CASE STUDY OF THE MOVIE-ESSAY «UKRAINE IN FLAMES»). Записки з ономастики, 0(19), 14-23. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-191734