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“Such Is My Nature that I Am Merry All The Time…” Personal Names Inspired by the Lexical Field ‘Human Nature’ as a Carrier of Meanings in Agnieszka Zimnowodzka’s Literary Space
Abstract
In this study, the issue of personal names inspired by the lexical units in the field ‘human nature’ are discussed, namely, those which have been noted in the series of short stories for children by Agnieszka Zimnowodzka entitled Humorki [Little Humours]. The formal and categorial qualities of those names were used by the author in the literary space and were attributed the status of textual meanings. Those creations were viewed from the standpoint of stylistic linguistics, text linguistics and pragmalinguistics. An analysis of the discussed names has revealed the ways in which they are written into the literary space, some tendencies (typical of the author’s creative manner) in naming and in composing the structure of names, as well as the applied naming strategies. It is the characteristic tendency of the author to create serial and occasional names, skilfully introduced into the (con)text. In her series of short stories, the personal names created by Zimnowodzka fulfil many intertwining functions: content-related, allusive, didactic, expressive, informative, intertextual, humoristic, creative, metatextual and evaluative.
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literary communication, naming inspiration, personal names, serial namesDetails
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