Onomastics of Kobzar: Widespread types of poetic proper names and their functional load (dedicated to the 205th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth)

Abstract

The present article is devoted to the issue of literary onomastics, which is an essential topic in modern Ukrainian linguistics. The study is focused around the textual space of Kobzar, Taras Shevchenko’s poetry collection. The aim of the article is to investigate the structure of the ono-masticon in this collection, and to identify the peculiarities of the functioning of proper names as related to their pragmatic load. It is concluded that the Kobzar onomasticon is composed of a var-iety of proper names, the majority of which are toponyms, antroponyms and fictional names. The proper names used in Kobzar serve not only a nominative function, which consists in designating the relevant real-life objects in the environment, but also textual, axiological, artistic, symbolic, personalizing and attractional functions.