Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Pseudonyms are widely used in literature, poetry, art, media and everyday life. Their choice is often determined not only by personal preferences, but also by linguistic processes, among which metaphorization and metonymization play a key role. This article examines how these cognitive mechanisms contribute to the formation of pseudonyms and what strategies for their use prevail. In the system of Russian and Uzbek anthroponymy, pseudonym models in different periods of society were formed on the basis of word-formation types of onyms and appellatives characteristic of a given time. They, like other onomastic units of anthroponyms, reflect the slightest changes in their formation. It should be noted that among Russian pseudonyms there is a small group of unusually formed pseudonyms, about 2%. Russian and Uzbek pseudonyms create a vast field of onomastic units. Authors, inventing them, turn to various types of word formation and the use of metaplasms, and when creating collective pseudonyms, they strive to note the contribution of each author; perpetuate the name, show kinship, and even manage to start a game with the reader. Such nominative units are observed only in pseudonyms. They are considered in the article from the cognitive, lexical-semantic, morphological, graphic, and phonetic points of view. Thus, the study of metaphorization and metonymization in the formation of pseudonyms allows us to better understand the mechanisms of linguistic creativity and self-presentation.
Source: PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL
Authors: S.S. Ibragimova, A.T. Kikbayeva
Institution: Alfraganus University
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4411825161