DIMINUTIVAREA ANTROPONIMELOR ÎN LITERATURA ROMÂNEASCĂ – IMPLICAȚII PSIHOLOGICE
THE DIMINUTION OF ANTHROPONYMS IN ROMANIAN LITERATURE – PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

Author(s): Silvia Iluț
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Psychology, Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature, Educational Psychology
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: diminutive; literary onomastics; proper nouns; stylistics; psychological implications.
Summary/Abstract: The objective of the present work is to identify the expressive valencies of names and denominations in the Romanian realist literary works and the decoding of the relation between the name and its bearer. There is also a logical rapport between the name and the literary character which will be discussed in the present work.The research is based on a thorough analysis, as our aim is to approach literary anthroponyms from a triple perspective: etymological, stylistic and contextual-connotative. In order to illustrate the afore mentioned aspects, we begin our analysis with the literary and symbolistic functions of the characters ’names, the act of denomination representing a modality through which the characters are created and individualized. The diminutivization of names transcends social and ideological factors, becoming manifestations of psychological “forces”.Starting from the premise that the names of the heroes from fictional creations carry linguistic but also psychosociocultural meanings, our research aims to presume the connection between the diminutive names of the actors and their verbal/social/psychological behavior or destiny in the work.The methodology of the present essay is characteristic to the field of onomastics, semantics, stylistics, theory of literary criticism and theory of literature. The corpus of the present work finds its source within the romanian realist literary creation.

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