Russkij Ivan i ego „braťja“ : pol'sk. Jan i fr. Jean (K voprosu o etnokul'turnoj specifike ličnogo imeni)

• Authors: Feoktistova, Ljubov´ , Spiridonov, Dmitrij

Title variants

EN

Russian Ivan and his „brothers“ : Polish Jan and French Jean (On ethno-cultural meaning of personal names)

• Languages of publication: RU

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on the Russian personal name Ivan in comparison with Polish Jan and French Jean. Based on an analysis of secondary appellative derivatives of these names in the Russian, Polish (including Kashubian) and French (including Occitan) dialects and colloquial languages, the authors reconstruct the ethno-cultural portraits of prototypical bearers of these names in corresponding languages. The analysis shows that the Russian Ivan, whose name often serves as a symbol of „russianess“, has very few specific features as compared to his French and Polish „brothers“. This conclusion leads to the question on ethnolinguistic mechanisms of derivation from personal names which, in the perspective of the contrastive study of deonyms, seem to be relatively universal.

Keywords

EN

onomastics; Russian language; Polish language; French poets; ethnolinguistics; antroponomastics; personal names; proper names; Russian; Polish; French; deonyms; connotative semantics of proper names; anthroponymy; anthroponyms

CS

onomastika; ruština; polština; francouzština; etnolingvistika; antroponomastika; osobní jména; vlastní jména; Ivan; Jan; Jean; antroponymie; antroponyma

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 56
• Pages: 76-92
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Feoktistova, Ljubov´

• Acta onomastica, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Spiridonov, Dmitrij

• Acta onomastica, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic