Біблійні антропоніми й топоніми в українській мові: основні вектори розвитку досліджень
Biblical Anthroponyms and Toponyms in the Ukrainian Language: Basic Vectors of Research Development

Summary/Abstract: This article considers the main features of the functioning and develop­ment of biblical anthroponyms in the modern Ukrainian language. On the one hand, proper names associated with religion serve to reflect the religious map of the world; on the other – they undergo desacralization and resacralization. This means that their pragmatic potential can expand and they can acquire non-religious semantics. As precedent names, biblical anthroponyms and toponyms reveal their pragmatic potential, first of all, in the belles-lettres style. Despite the conserva­tism of academic style, biblical anthroponyms function there as well, enriching scientific terminology. In the publicist style, biblical proper names are often used in strong text positions of headings. Most of the analysed units are used as symbols. Semantic and connotative amplitudes of biblical onyms are so wide that they have become the object of word game resulting in polysemy of some units and even their enantiosemy.

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