ANTHROPONYMOUS LEXICAN AS THE BASIS FOR CREATING NAMES OF UKRAINIAN PROTECTORS: ON THE MATERIAL OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE MEDIA

Abstract

The article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of anthroponymic vocabulary as the basis for creating call signs of Ukrainian defenders in modern media discourse. It was found that anthroponyms play a decisive role in the formation of individualized names, as they provide a natural connection between the personal identity of the military and their new communicative role in wartime. Proper names, surnames and their associative transformations form a semantically rich, recognizable and stable basis for the emergence of heteronymous and semi-official call signs. Several productive groups of such names have been identified on the basis of modern military media discourse. These include call signs motivated by personal names and name associations. It is noted that proper personal names are one of the most active lexical bases for creating call signs, since official anthroponyms are immediately associated with their bearers, they often become a source of direct and stylized nomination. Callsigns that arose on the basis of borrowed English male and female names are differentiated. They are widespread in modern Ukrainian military communication, especially among the male anthroponymic. In the language of the media, frequent callsigns formed from official surnames demonstrate high derivational productivity due to rederivation, truncation, associative rethinking and other phonetic and word-forming modifications. A significant share is made up of callsigns created by associative rapprochement of the surname with lexemes familiar to the speaker. A separate group is formed by names built on the similarity to the names and surnames of famous figures, heroes of cinema, animation, folklore, biblical or mythical characters, reflecting individual style, humor or the desire to identify with heroic images of mass culture. The classification of call signs of this lexical layer confirms the multi-vector nature of the sources of nomination and reflects the national and cultural specificity of the modern Ukrainian anthroponymicon. It is concluded that together these processes demonstrate a complex semantic and motivational mechanism of call sign creation and their important socio-cultural function in wartime conditions.