PORECLE REFLECTATE ÎN COMENTARIILE METALINGVISTICE (PE BAZA NALR)
NICKNAMES REFLECTED IN METALINGUISTIC COMMENTS (BASED ON NALR)

Author(s): Rozalia Colciar
Subject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: nickname; metalinguistic commentary;linguistic atlas; affective content; traditional mentality.
Summary/Abstract: Our work approaches the non-conventional/unofficial onomastic information provided by the metalinguistic comments of the informants, within the dialect surveys carried out for the Dacoromanian territory, namely nicknames, also known as “taunt names” or “names of shame”. The information is usually contained by the legends of the maps and of the lists of unmapped material in linguistic atlases. As in the case of irony and common names appellatives, the nickname is one of the mechanisms of pragmatic type that the speaker uses to criticize or ridicule various aspects that do not conform to the norms and patterns specific to the traditional mentality, whether it is about aspects related to the human body or behaviours. These unofficial onomastic forms, having an affective content, analysed semantically and structurally, are expressed through linguistic mechanisms such as appellative, metaphor or metonymy. They are based on terms that refer to physical, mental, moral or behavioural characteristics (including speech defects), flora, fauna, household objects, food, etc. Structurally, the comments show a preference for a single term, but there are also nicknames based on compound words or expressions. It can be stated that the nicknames analysed in the present work reflect, in addition to the linguistic awareness of the speaker, the social relations between the members of the community, as well as the creativity of the denominators.

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