Structural types of secondary anthroponyms in English and Russian journalistic texts.

Abstract

The object of this study is the secondary anthroponyms of the Russian and English languages. The subject of the proposed work is the structural design of anthroponyms in the Russian and American press. The relevance of the research topic is due to the increasing interest of modern linguists in studying the specifics of the functioning of secondary anthroponyms in journalistic texts as an actual source reflecting the main properties and specifics of the use of these lexical units, as well as the lack of a sufficient number of works currently studying secondary anthroponyms from the proposed position. In their research, the authors used the following research methods: semantic analysis, structural analysis, comparative method, quantitative method, modeling method. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that it reveals for the first time the structural types of secondary anthroponyms used in journalistic texts of Russian and American media in a comparative aspect. As a result of the work carried out, information was obtained that, both in Russian and American journalistic texts, the most common form of secondary anthroponyms are anthroponyms-phrases. In addition, it was found that in the publications of the American media, secondary anthroponyms– abbreviations in comparison with the Russian press do not find their application. The practical value of the work consists in the possibility of applying the results of the study in the practice of teaching English as a foreign language when working with journalistic texts at a university.