2022, Volume 19, Issue 1
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Marina О. Kunshchikova Proper Names as a Source of Wordplay in Classroom Bilingual Speech
Voprosy onomastiki, 2022, Volume 19, Issue 1, pp. 201–218 (in Russian) Received on 12 November 2021 Abstract: The article explores the use of proper names as a source of wordplay in the classroom bilingual interaction in English as a second language. It is noted that wordplay becomes a means of accommodation to the onomastic system of a foreign language when proper names trigger bilingual metalinguistic reflection. The author emphasizes that wordplay is a process of deliberate deviation from language norms in which the proper name is a standard language unit (‘normema’) that undergoes linguistic reinterpretation and turns into a non-standard language unit (‘igrema’) developing both formal and semantic changes. It is exactly the non-standard nature of onomastic units under study and the specificity of the material that explain the novelty of the present research. This paper aims to identify the reasons why proper names become a source of non-standard language units in the classroom bilingual speech. Two groups of such reasons are distinguished, namely, the features of the formal morphological structure of proper names and features of their lexical meaning. It appears that wordplay occurs in proper names that include a ‘transferable’ component, creating an associative metatextual reference in the bilingual mind. Proceeding from the fact that such components can be found on the phonemic, morphemic, or lexical level, the author describes three corresponding models of wordplay. It is noted that wordplay mostly involves proper names with a distinct social component that is also relevant in the community of native English speakers. These include personal and place names, names of organizations and products. For each type of proper names, the author suggests two types of the development of the semantic connection between a standard language unit and a non-standard language unit: the one that does not involve the internal form of a proper name and another one that is based on it. Keywords: wordplay, onomastic wordplay, anthroponyms, toponyms, ergonyms, pragmatonyms, classroom bilingual, metalanguage reflection. References Golomidova, M. V. (2017). Arkhetipy onimicheskoi nominatsii: indikativ, dedikativ, deziderativ [Archetypal Naming Patterns: Indicative, Dedicative, Desiderative]. In E. L. Berezovich (Ed.), V sozvezdii slov i imen: sb. nauch. st. k yubileiu M. E. Rut [In a Constellation of Words and Names: To the Anniversary of Prof. Maria Ruth] (pp. 302–320). Ekaterinburg: Ural University Press. Gridina, T. A. (1996). Iazykovaia igra: stereotip i tvorchestvo [Wordplay: Stereotype and Creativity]. Ekaterinburg: Ural State Pedagogical University. Gridina, T. A. (2008). Iazykovaia igra v khudozhestvennom tekste [Wordplay in Fiction]. Ekaterinburg: Ural State Pedagogical University. Lomov, A. M. (2013). Imena sobstvennye i iazykovaia igra [Proper Names and Wordplay]. Vestnik Voronezhskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Ser. “Lingvistika i mezhkul’turnaia kommunikatsiia”, 2, 158–161. Norman, B. Yu. (1987). Iazyk: znakomyi neznakomets [Language: a Familiar Stranger]. Minsk: Vysheishaia shkola. Rostova, A. N. (2000). Metatekst kak forma eksplikatsii metaiazykovogo soznaniia (na materiale russkikh govorov Sibiri) [Metatext as a Form of Explication of Metalinguistic Consciousness (on the Material of Russian Dialects of Siberia)]. Tomsk: Tomsk University Press. Ruth, M. E. (2001). Antroponimy: razmyshleniia o semantike [Personal Names: Reflections on Semantics]. Izvestiia Ural’skogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 20, 59–64. Ruth, M. E., & Ivanova, E. N. (2013). Yazykovaia igra v diskurse yazykovoi lichnosti [Wordplay in the Discourse of a Linguistic Personality]. In T. A. Gridina (Ed.), Lingvistika kreativa — 1 [Creative Linguistics — 1] (2nd ed., pp. 78–86). Ekaterinburg: Ural State Pedagogical University. Sannikov, V. Z. (2002). Russkii iazyk v zerkale iazykovoi igry [Russian Language in the Mirror of Wordplay] (2nd ed.). Moscow: Iazyki slavianskoi kul’tury. Superanskaya, A. V. (2009). Obshchaia teoriia imeni sobstvennogo [General Theory of the Proper Name] (3rd ed.). Moscow: LIBROKOM. Superanskaya, A. V., & Staltmane, V. E. (1986). Onomasticheskaia nominatsiia [Onomastic Naming]. In A. P. Nepokupny (Ed.), Teoriia i metodika onomasticheskikh issledovanii [Theory and Methods of Onomastic Research] (pp. 15–25). Moscow: Nauka. Zemskaya, E. A., Kitaigorodskaya, M. V., & Rozanova, N. N. (1983). Russkaia razgovornaia rech’. Fonetika. Morfologiia. Leksikologiia. Zhest [Russian Colloquial Speech. Phonetics. Morphology. Lexicology. Gesture]. Moscow: Nauka. |
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