Anthroponyms in post-modernist text: structural and functional types (by works of V.O. Pelevin)

The aim of this researchis to determine characteristics of using different types of anthroponyms in a post-modernist text on the basis of V.O. Pelevin's works:Generation ''P'', The Yellow Arrow, Omon Ra, The Horror Helmet, and P5. In the article according to linguistic cultures theanthroponyms in the above-mentioned works are divided into two types, each of which is divided into subtypes. To define how thesetwo-typed names function in the text the concept of markedness is used. The names corresponding to the Russian trinomial system ofthe complete anthroponym, used in texts in one or several structural forms, relate to the first type. This anthroponym type is used tocharacterize a personage socially and culturally and is represented in the analysed works in various structures: trinomial, binomial andmononuclear. According to the context the names of the given type can be characterised as marked and unmarked. The second typeattributes to the names, which do not belong to the Russian anthroponym system. The analysed anthroponyms are regarded as markedfor the representatives of Russian linguistic culture. This type has two varieties: the first is the names with semantic direct reference tothe ''alien'' culture, the second type refers to occasional, individually author's anthroponyms (these proper names have a reference toworldwide culture realities and are regarded as occasional - that is the author's name-creation product). The article focuses onoccasional names-nicknames and considers the peculiarities of name-nicknames functioning in V.O. Pelevin's novel The Horror Helmet.The name-nicknames are divided into subtypes in accordance with the purpose of using them in the text: 1) the names preceding the textused for marking the addresser; 2) the names used for addressing to or informing about the character in the message text. The articlecharacterises each subtype and describes demonstration of mythological origin in the characters' names. The author concludes that namemyth development in post-modernist texts is realisation of characters' social status and behaviour strategy influenced by the namereferred to mythologems and linguistic culturemes.

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