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M. A. Ananyina LINGUOCOGNITIVE FEATURES OF ALLUSIVE ANTHROPONYMIC CONCEPTS IN MODERN BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE // I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. 2026. № 2(131). p. 3-10
Author(s):
M. A. Ananyina
Index of UDK:
81'373.23:821.111(73+410)
Index of DOI:
10.37972/chgpu.2026.131.2.001
Name of article:
LINGUOCOGNITIVE FEATURES OF ALLUSIVE ANTHROPONYMIC CONCEPTS IN MODERN BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
Keywords:
allusive anthroponymic concept, modern British Literature, modern American Literature, cognitive poetics, artistic concept
Abstracts:
This paper presents the findings of a comparative linguocognitive study of allusive anthroponyms based on contemporary British and American literature. The study focuses on allusive anthroponymic concept-prototypes which actualize the most salient characteristics of the allusive anthroponym’s referent. The study of allusive anthroponyms provides an opportunity to identify the set of characteristics pertinent to the concepts they represent. This issue is of significant relevance from cultural, pragmatic, and translational perspectives.
As a result of a comparative linguocognitive analysis, features specific to allusive anthroponymic concept-prototypes in modern British and American literary texts were identified. In both types of texts, the concepts profile the traits of “a well-known figure” and “a self-assured villain”, with British concepts also exhibiting the trait of “an evil person”. Based on their nominative density, the profiled features were classed into dominant, intermediate, and peripheral, the latter exhibiting the greatest variability. Among the allusive anthroponymic concept-prototypes, recurrent and multi-attributive concepts were identified. The texts of both cultures were found to contain identical allusive anthroponyms – Frankenstein and Sylvia Plath which evoke similar characteristics associated with culturally embedded attributes.
The linguocognitive differences lie in the set of profiled features, their attribution to the identified layers of the artistic anthroposphere, and a higher proportion of nation-specific concepts in the texts of American authors.
The contact details of authors:
Ananyina, Marina Aleksandrovna – Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of German Philology, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6233-5311, ananinama@yandex.ru
