FUNCTIONING OF ANTHROPONYMS IN THE STRUCTURE OF RUSSIAN EPISTOLARY VOCATIVE

Abstract

The article considers the functioning of anthroponyms as an address in epistolary texts. Purpose. We seek to analyze the use of the main types of anthroponyms as the epistolary vocative in published Russian-language letters from various authors of the 19th–20th centuries. Methods: a descriptive method and a method of communicative-pragmatic analysis were used, correlating textual phenomena with a number of extralinguistic factors, primarily the relationship between the participants in communication. The scientific novelty is associated with the insufficient study of the functioning of proper names as part of the appeal in written messages. Conclusions. There is no strict correlation between the form of the anthroponym-vocative and the identity of the addressee, since the author of the letter can apply to the same addressee using different anthroponyms, appellatives and all possible combinations of them, using a vocative with an ironic emotional coloring or any other connotation. If a certain type of anthroponym or an vocative model prevails among some addressers, this most often depends on communicative factors, such as the circle of correspondents, the personality of the addresser, the nature of the correspondence, etc. The wide variation of antroponymic nomination forms in the structure of Russian epistolary vocative is due to the depth and nature of personal relations between the sender and the addressee, the degree of regularity of correspondence and creativity as a feature of the linguistic personality of the author of the letter. Address in Russian written speech demonstrates the wide possibilities for the formation of a large number of derivative words, which are difficult to fix lexicographically, on the basis of a rather limited set of lexemes that nominate the addressee.