247 KB0 KB200420252020Manova-Georgieva, Yanaletnik:17številka:2str. 65-76DOI:10.4312/elope.17.2.165-176ISSN:1581-8918COBISSID_HOST:58086147URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-QNJGR747enZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v LjubljaniELOPE (Ljubljana)karaktonimiknjiževna imenaknjiževna onomastikalastna imenananašanjeonomastikaWhat's behind a name?| Origins and meaning of some of the recurrent charactersin Terry Pratchett's Discworld|Nominative symbolism in fantasy is a tool to attribute certain traits to literary characters and thus to convey meaning which enriches the readers' comprehension of the fictitious personality. Proper names in the English naming tradition are not generally seen as means of alluding to the character of a person, yet they have sometimes been chosen purposefully by writers so as to reveal the idea that a symbolic name tries to convey. The paper therefore aims at investigating the origin and author's intended meaning behind the names of some recurrent literary characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series from the viewpoint of their structure and the allusions they evoke in the reader's imagination. The analysis includes five names presenting three different structures: neologisms based on syntactic composition, imitations of borrowed structures that are foreign to the English model of naming, and typical English naming models where name symbolism is due to the lexical choice of the components in the nameV fantazijskem žanru je nominativni simbolizem orodje za pripisovanje določenih lastnosti književnim likom, simbolni pomeni pa bogatijo bralsko dojemanje fiktivnih likov. V angleški poimenovalni tradiciji lastna imena praviloma ne služijo prikazu osebnih lastnosti, jih pa pisci tu in tam načrtno izberejo prav zaradi njihovih simbolnih pomenov. V prispevku raziskujem izvor in namen imen likov, ki se pojavljajo v Pratchettovi seriji romanov Plošča s stališča njihove strukture in asociacij, ki jih sprožijo v domišljiji bralstva. Analiza vsebuje pet imen, ki predstavljajo tri različne strukture, in sicer neologizme, ki temeljijo na sintaktični kompoziciji; imitacije izposojenih struktur, ki so tuje angleškemu modelu poimenovanja; in tipične angleške poimenovalne modele, kjer se simbolni pomen imena ustvarja z leksikalnim izborom sestavin imenaTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Znanstvena založba