converge and consolidate name change patterns
derived from sociopolitical modifications.
MacKenzie, L. (2018) describes how students
can be introduced to the basics of linguistic
analysis using personal, product, and place
names as data. The author outlines several areas
of linguistics that can be effectively taught at an
introductory level through name data and
provides examples of accompanying in-class and
take-home exercises. The article demonstrates
that the everyday familiarity of names and the
ready availability of name data combine to create
a class that not only engages students but also
teaches them practical data-analysis skills.
C. Juncal (2018). analyses the evolution of the
anthroponymical repertoire of a municipal
council located in the west of the province of
Vizcaya, in the Spanish Basque Country. It has
traditionally been a Spanish-speaking area,
although it is now clearly influenced by the
language policies of the Basque Autonomous
Community to which it belongs, where recent
years have witnessed a major expansion in the
use of the Basque language in different ambits.
This study examines the evolution of onomastic
usages over a period that includes the transition
from the Franco era to democracy in the 1970s,
with the ensuing quantitative and qualitative shift
in the choice of children's names.
The necessity of using onomastic material in the
educational process with children was pointed
out at one time by E. Aldrin (2019). He shows
how a small group of Swedish teenagers handle
onomastic choices of self- and other-referencing
as part of their everyday mobile phone
interaction. It further discusses how the teenagers
explained their views regarding online names
during interviews. The data are analyzed
qualitatively using theories of identity and social
positioning.
The need for wide use of local, in particular
onomastic, material in the school's educational
activities was pointed out by T. Vilchynska et al.
(2021). They investigate conceptual metaphor as
a lingua-instrumental tool by which a person can
know, evaluate, and transform the world. The
history of metaphor study has been considered in
detail, from its complete denial to understanding
as a mechanism of objective reality cognition,
and it has been found that most approaches to the
interpretation of metaphor were demonstrated in
the twentieth century. In particular, it has been
considered as a means of forming concepts, as a
semantic-two-dimensional, clearly connoted
unit, as a symbolic structure of language, as a
marker of quirk, and as an object of linguistic and
cultural research, etc. I. Podhurska (2021)
devoted her research to the analysis of the
onomastic space of the famous British writer
Roald Dahl, which occupies an important place
in children's literature because his works about
children and for children have many proper
names that reflect the country's culture, religious
beliefs, and history. Onomastic units became the
subject of study because they play an integral
role in revealing the plot of a literary work. The
researcher has shown in modern English-
language texts of the fantasy genre the growing
importance of the problem of the functioning of
onyms in children's works by R. Dahl, in
particular, and in the literary field in general,
since they play an important role in the formation
of a unique image system of the fictional world;
about a hundred units were allocated to mark the
names of characters, domestic animals, and
geographical objects; there was an immersion in
the semantics and etymology of onomastic
components.
O. Melnyk, & O. Voloshina (2022) distinguished
the concepts of "onomastic space" and "onym
space", described the state of the study of
ergonyms and its history in linguistics,
characterized the main approaches and stages to
the study of modern toponymy, clarified the
linguistic status of the definition of "ergonym",
determined that a toponym is "a concept that
embodies the semantic features of the onymic
space, and a lexical unit, the creation of which is
determined by the action of word-forming
features and models".
The relevance of such studies is determined by
the specificity of onomastic vocabulary and its
difference from other classes of words. Although
modern onomastic research uses all linguistic
methods without exception, many acquire new
forms and approaches. Analyzing the methods of
onomastic research, scientists concluded that the
most widespread of them are: "descriptive, areal,
genetic, typological methods, as well as various
methods of comparative and historical
linguistics." On the other hand, the onomastic
material requires the connection of some
additional methods or techniques for its
comprehensive analysis.
O. Hrynyova, L. Tereshchenko (2015) devoted
their research to the problems of translating
proper names in literary works for children.
Names in such works often contain additional
information about the character's habits,
character, and origin, that is, they are telling.
Intertextual information in such a name can be
"hidden" because it becomes a kind of challenge