NOMINATIVE FUNCTIONS OF ANTHROPONYMS IN ENGLISH, UZBEK, AND RUSSIAN LITERARY DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE ONOMASTIC ANALYSIS

Begmatov, Azizbek Tursunbayevich

Қўқон ДПИ. Илмий хабарлар · 2026-yil

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This study investigates the nominative functions of anthroponyms — personal names — as deployed in canonical and contemporary literary texts from three typologically distinct linguistic traditions: English, Uzbek, and Russian. Drawing on a corpus of nine literary works comprising 1,247 identified anthroponyms, the research applies a mixed-methods framework integrating corpus-assisted frequency analysis with qualitative functional classification grounded in Felecan's four-function taxonomy and Greimas's actantial model. Findings reveal that the referential function predominates across all three traditions (50.4– 52.5%), yet substantial cross-linguistic variation emerges in expressive, cultural-historical, and pragmatic encoding. English literary onomastics exhibits the strongest expressive-symbolic orientation (33.3%), Uzbek naming conventions foreground cultural-moral and historical identity (21.6%), while Russian literary anthroponymy deploys a morphologically rich diminutive system encoding social hierarchy and interpersonal affect (10.3% pragmatic). Translation equivalence is identified as a significant challenge, and functional-pragmatic strategies are proposed. Implications for comparative literary linguistics, translation pedagogy, and cross-cultural communication are discussed.

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MualliflarBegmatov, Azizbek Tursunbayevich
JurnalҚўқон ДПИ. Илмий хабарлар
Nashr sanasi2026-06-05
Jild8
Son04
Betlar1427-1437
TilIngliz
DOI10.70728/b.series.v08.i04.204

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anthroponym, onomastics, nominative function, literary discourse, comparative linguistics, English, Uzbek, Russian, translation studies, sociolinguistics

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