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Антропонимы за пределами монокультурной среды
Personal Names outside the Monocultural Environment

Author(s): Aimgul Kazkenova
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: personal name ; name transformation ; name adaptation ; foreign cultural / multicultural environment ; legal regulation of naming

Summary/Abstract: The article describes transformations of a personal name in a foreign cultural/ multicultural environment, as well as principles of legal regulations of naming. Methodologyof the study is based on the works of Kazakh and foreign researchers of personal names.The basis of the factual material is made up of examples taken from the multicultural environmentof Kazakhstan. It is emphasized that transformations of the name outside the primary culture issignificantly different from its pragmatic variation within this culture. All transformations areaimed at adapting the name to new conditions. Legal regulations of naming can be carried outin accordance with various principles: it can be aimed at the unification and standardizationof names or the preservation of their diversity.

  • Issue Year: IX/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 209-217
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Russian