Authors
- Steksova Tatyana I. Dr. Habil. (Philology), Professor
Annotation
This article is relevant because it fits into a growing body of modern research on ergonyms and, more broadly, onyms. Its relevance stems from two factors. First, although ergonyms have been extensively studied in terms of their word formation and pragmatics, no attempt has yet been made to examine ergonyms as utterances. Second, while most scholarly works on ergonomics use the names of commercial entities: cafes, shops, hairdressers, restaurants, etc., as research material, this article analyzes the names of children’s educational institutions. Ergonyms of private kindergartens in Novosibirsk serve as linguistic material. The aim of the study is to analyze ergonyms from the perspective of their intended purpose by updating rhematic information. The patterns by which ergonyms are formed are identified. This article proposes considering an ergonym as a condensed utterance that verbally expresses a rhematic component, leaving the topic presupposed. Ergonyms are interpreted as specific components of the semantic structure of an utterance. It is revealed that the verbally expressed components of a condensed utterance are subjects, locative,
purpose, and attributes. Some ergonyms are oriented toward an adult addressee, while others are oriented toward a child, indicating their different addressee orientations. The issue of ergonym compliance with addressee expectations is discussed, using an analysis of real reviews of these children’s educational institutions posted online. The materials presented in the article allow us to confirm the hypothesis that the choice of a particular childcare facility by parents is largely determined by the ergonym and the extent to which it corresponds to the expectations of the recipient. Dynamic processes in the field of nominations of urban objects pose questions for syntacticians to revise some theoretical positions on the syntactic status of ergonyms, which require further discussion.
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Steksova, T. I. (2026). ERGONYM AS A COMPRESSED STATEMENT Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 1 (61), 55. https://doi.org/10.24412/2076-913X-2026-161-55-68
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