| Abstract [eng] |
Naming an entity is one of the basic speech acts. The act of naming serves to illuminate the entities that play a role in people’s daily life. Proper names is the object of onomastics. It is generally agreed among linguists that proper names are a universal linguistic category. Proper names constitute a system which varies across cultures and provide a reflection of the society of which they are the expression. They are linguistic items fulfilling a referential function. The proper names in phraseological units are of great importance in communication, where they are signs of cultural, linguistic, geographical, ethnic and social identity. The present paper is concerned with proper names in English phraseology. The aim of the present paper is to explore the linguistic- cultural aspects of phraseological units containing personal and place names. The material was selected from Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying and Quotation. 270 examples have been drawn for the present analysis (125 examples with personal names in phraseological units and 145 examples with place names in phraseological units). The research proved that the personal names involved in the phraseological expressions indicate the following types of sources: the Bible, mythological figures, figures of Greek and Roman Antiquity, popular culture, real people, and literary texts. The placenames involved in the phraseological expressions indicate the following types of sources: places in UK, eastern countries related to the British colonial past, places related to classical heritage, places on the Continent. To sum up, the personal and place names involved in phraseology are historically, socially or culturally prominent in British culture. |
