Anthroponyms: the lexico-semantic approach to word formation and its social and cultural implications

Miramgul Mnaidarova; Gulnar Sarseke; Ibrahim Sahin

doi:10.1515/lpp-2024-0025

Article

Anthroponyms: the lexico-semantic approach to word formation and its social and cultural implications

Miramgul Mnaidarova , Gulnar Sarseke and Ibrahim Sahin

Published/Copyright: December 9, 2024

Published by

Become an author with De Gruyter Brill

Submit Manuscript Author Information Explore this Subject

From the journal Lodz Papers in Pragmatics Volume 21 Issue 1

Abstract

The relevance of the study is that specific individual linguistic customs and traditions are characteristic of each nation. The objective of the study is to examine the key aspects of anthroponyms and the methodology of their development in Turkish and Kazakh languages. In conducting the research, general scientific and special methods were used to achieve its goals and objectives. Its main results can be defined as follows. It was argued that the lexical-semantic approach to word formation is one of the most widespread approaches to the creation of meaningful anthroponyms, reflecting the features and characteristics of the named person. According to the results of the conducted research, the necessity of studying anthroponyms and word formations was revealed and substantiated. The reason for this is that they have an important social and cultural significance in the process of interaction between the peoples of the world, as well as the study of their cultural heritage. The latter is directly related to the fact that personal names express moral and philosophical values of a certain ethos, fix in themselves the history, traditions, and beliefs of a particular society or community. As a result of the research, it was concluded that anthroponyms in the onomastic field of any language of the world are nuclear constituents. At the same time, the whole set of anthroponyms contained in it will be unique, as the factors influencing the speakers of the language will differ.

Keywords: linguoculturology; speakers of languages; nuclear constituents; word formation; individual name

Corresponding author: Gulnar Sarseke, Department of Kazakh Linguistics, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, 010008, 2 Satpayev Str., Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, E-mail: gulnarsarseke@gmail.com

Data availability: The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author.
Conflict of interests: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests.

References

Aliakbarova, Aigerim, Gulmira Madiyeva & Chen Xiao. 2020. Evolution of anthroponyms: Transformation in the naming of newborn babies and its role for society in the period of linguistic transition. Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 8(4). 1522–1534. https://doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2020.84140.Search in Google Scholar

Anyanwu, Esther. 2023. An investigation into anthroponyms comparative linguistic study of Igbo and English personal names. Nnadiebube Journal of Languages and Literatures 1(1). 58–70.Search in Google Scholar

Arginbekova, Gulnar, Shamshidin Amitov, Yklas Dulatov, Kairat Bakbergen & Rimma Kyndybayeva. 2024. The transformation of spiritual consciousness in modern conditions. Scientific Herald of Uzhhorod University. Series Physics 55. 2285–2294. https://doi.org/10.54919/physics/55.2024.228wd5.Search in Google Scholar

Arif, Vusala Aliyeva. 2024. Structural-semantic features of semi̇-affixes in English-French languages. Scientific Journal of Polonia University 61(6). 130–134. https://doi.org/10.23856/6116.Search in Google Scholar

Bidzilya, Yuriy. 2015. Slovak press in Zakarpattia as the revival of national identity. European Journal of Science and Theology 11(6). 67–78.Search in Google Scholar

Bismildina, Dinara, Maya Myrzabekova & Asiya Nurzhanova. 2024. Nature of common words in Kazakh and Turkish languages. InterConf 45(201). 281–289. https://doi.org/10.51582/interconf.19-20.05.2024.027.Search in Google Scholar

Brait, Beth, Maria Helena Cruz Pistori, Bruna Lopes Dugnani, Paulo Rogério Stella & Carlos Gontijo Rosa. 2023. Culture, literary scholarship, and great time. Bakhtiniana 18(4). e64121e. https://doi.org/10.1590/2176-4573e64121.Search in Google Scholar

Bromham, Lindell, Russell Dinnage, Hedvig Skirgard, Andrew Ritchie, Marcel Cardillo, Felicity Meakins, Simon Greenhill & Xia Hua. 2021. Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6(2). 163–173. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01604-y.Search in Google Scholar

Bush, Stephen J. 2020. Ambivalence, avoidance, and appeal: Alliterative aspects of Anglo anthroponyms. Names: A Journal of Onomastics 68(3). 141–155. https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1775471.Search in Google Scholar

Chanda, Osward & Peeter Päll. 2020. Treatment of names in Zambia and Estonia: A comparative analysis. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics 11(1). 235–247. https://doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2020.11.1.10.Search in Google Scholar

Dahl, Niklas. 2022. A fixed-point problem for theories of meaning. Synthese 200. 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03559-4.Search in Google Scholar

Darginavičienė, Irena. 2023. The multilingualism: Language and cultural identity. Logos 116. 167–174.Search in Google Scholar

Denys, Iryna. 2024. Language as an important means of information encoding. Library Science. Record Studies. Informology 20(1). 8–11. https://doi.org/10.63009/lsrsi/1.2024.08.Search in Google Scholar

Emike, Acheoah John & Williams Ocheme. 2024. Semantics in theory and practice. Global Journal of Research in Education & Literature 4(1). 12–16.Search in Google Scholar

Ezeudo, Chika Obiageli, Sopuruchi Christian Aboh & Kalu Mba Idika. 2021. Morphosyntactic analysis of Onitsha personal names. Journal of Language Teaching and Research 12(3). 411–418. https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1203.11.Search in Google Scholar

Fernández-Domínguez, Jesús. 2019. The onomasiological approach. Oxford research encyclopedia of linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.579Search in Google Scholar

Fonseca, Guilherme & André Xavier. 2024. Analysis of anthroponyms for famous people in Libras. SciELO Preprints 1. 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1590/scielopreprints.8045.Search in Google Scholar

Frigerio, Aldo. 2019. Sentences as systems: The principle of compositionality and its limits. In The systemic turn in human and natural sciences, 171–184. Cham: Springer.10.1007/978-3-030-00725-6_9Search in Google Scholar

Garré, Matilde, Elisa Le Bail & Audrey Vasselin. 2024. Proper nouns: Untranslated or untranslatable? Calenda 1. 1–11. https://doi.org/10.58079/ve7e.Search in Google Scholar

Habibli, Yusif Gizi. 2023. Linguoculturological aspect of personal names. Scientific Magazine of the University of Cienfuegos 15(4). 166–174.Search in Google Scholar

Hasjim, Munira. 2023. Social change and its effect on the self-naming system of millennial society in Indonesia. Cogent Arts & Humanities 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2023.2250115.Search in Google Scholar

Héois, Aurélie. 2019. When proper names become verbs: A semantic perspective. Lexis – Journal in English Lexicology 16.10.4000/lexis.4681Search in Google Scholar

Huguin, Mathilde. 2017. Anthroponyms and paradigmatic derivation in French. ATILF UMR 1. 1–16. https://perso.atilf.fr/mhuguin/wp-content/uploads/sites/53/2021/11/Anthroponyms-and-paradigmatic-derivation-in-French.pdf.Search in Google Scholar

Huy, Vo Quoc. 2024. Exploring linguistic evolution: A comprehensive analysis of vocabulary in Japanese and English languages. Educational Administration: Theory and Practice 30(4). 276–280.Search in Google Scholar

Ionescu, Denisa-Alexandra. 2022. Anthroponyms at the crossroads of different cultures. Multiculturalism în Onomastică 1. 183–195. https://doi.org/10.30816/iconn5/2019/15.Search in Google Scholar

Jackendoff, Ray. 2022. Lexical semantics. In The Oxford handbook of the mental lexicon, 126–150. Oxford: Oxford Handbooks.10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198845003.013.3Search in Google Scholar

Kačmár, Pavol & Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2022. Big-five model of personality and word formation: Role of open-mindedness in semantic transparency and economy of expression. Language and Cognition 15(2). 217–244. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2022.34.Search in Google Scholar

Kasym, Balkia. 2010. Word-formation potential and semantic fields of black colour in Kazakh language. Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abay, Vol. 1. 1–3. https://www.rusnauka.com/30_NNM_2010/Philologia/72928.doc.htm.Search in Google Scholar

Kauf, Carina, Greta Tuckute, Roger Levy, Jacob Andreas & Evelina Fedorenko. 2024. Lexical-semantic content, not syntactic structure, is the main contributor to ANN-brain similarity of fMRI responses in the language network. Neurobiology of Language 5(1). 7–42. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00116.Search in Google Scholar

Kinyua, Susan & David Barasa. 2022. Anthroponymy in Eastern Nilotic: A case of Turkana personal names. Research Journal in Advanced Humanities 3(2). https://doi.org/10.58256/rjah.v3i2.843.Search in Google Scholar

Kortabayeva, Gulzhamal Kydyrbaevna & Janara Muratbekova. 2024. Ethnolinguistic nature of riddles in Kazakh and Chinese languages. Bulletin of the Karaganda University, Philology Series 29(113). 96–105.Search in Google Scholar

Kuldashev, Akramjon Makhmudovich & Shakhnoza Akramovna Kuldasheva. 2024. Evolution of common Turkic divergent elements used in Alisher Navaiy’s works. Educational Administration: Theory and Practice 30(5). 6598–6603.Search in Google Scholar

Kurtyigit, Sinan, Maike Park, Dominik Schlechtweg, Jonas Kuhn & Sabine Schulte. 2021. Lexical semantic change discovery. Proceedings of the 59th annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics and the 11th international joint conference on natural language processing, 6985–6998. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics.10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.543Search in Google Scholar

Lande, Kevin J. 2023. Contours of vision: Towards a compositional semantics of perception. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1. 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1086/725094.Search in Google Scholar

Lewis, Martha. 2024. Grounded learning for compositional vector semantics. arXiv:2401.06808. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.06808.Search in Google Scholar

Liu, Zhu, Cunliang Kong, Ying Liu & Maosong Sun. 2024. Fantastic semantics and where to find them: Investigating which layers of generative LLMs reflect lexical semantics. Ithaca: Cornell University.10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.866Search in Google Scholar

Madiyeva, Gulmira, Ernst Hoffmann & Aytaj Aliakbarova. 2020. Linguistic attribution of modern Kazakh anthroponyms. Eurasian Journal of Philology: Science and Education 177(1). 78–85. https://doi.org/10.26577/ejph.2020.v177.i1.ph11.Search in Google Scholar

Mandende, Itani Peter, Mzwamadoda Phillip Cekiso & Christopher Rwodzi. 2020. Personal names as communicative tools in Tshiven? Cultural-Historical perspectives. Sociolinguistic Studies 13(2-4). 335–355. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.37867.Search in Google Scholar

Mangena, Tendai & Alice Mitchell. 2023. Hauntings of the metaphysical empire? Anthroponomic patterns in contemporary Zimbabwe. Critical African Studies 15(3). 309–324. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2023.2232053.Search in Google Scholar

Mensah, Eyo & Kirsty Rowan. 2020. African anthroponyms: Sociolinguistic currents and anthropological reflections. Sociolinguistic Studies 13(2-4). 157–170. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.37819.Search in Google Scholar

Milo, Andrianna. 2024. The concept of linguoculture in modern science: Formation and potential. Logos 118. 58–67.Search in Google Scholar

Nusubalieva, Eliza, Aisulu Beishenova, Toktobubu Ashymbaeva, Nurzhan Sartbekova & Nazar Dogdurbek. 2023. Civic identity of youth as an important element of modern sociocultural transformation of society. Social and Legal Studios 6(4). 145–154. https://doi.org/10.32518/sals4.2023.145.Search in Google Scholar

Obinna, Patrick Kenneth, Osondu Amarachi Stephenie & Ofoha N. Ugonna. 2024. Aspects of onomastics in Ngwa Igbo: Preliminary notes. Journal of Language Development and Linguistics 3(1). 57–74. https://doi.org/10.55927/jldl.v3i1.8184.Search in Google Scholar

Oralbaeva, Nazım. 1989. Word formation system of the modern Kazakh language. Almaty: Gylym. https://www.sudoc.fr/124819281.Search in Google Scholar

Otarbekova, Zhamila Kerimbaevna. 2020. The lexical-semantic method of compilation. KazYltKyzPU 1. 1–4. https://nbisu.moy.su/_ld/12/1254_Otarbekova_J.K..pdf.Search in Google Scholar

Pannitto, Ludovica & Alessandro Lenci. 2019. Event knowledge in compositional distributional semantics. Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics 5(1). 73–88. https://doi.org/10.4000/ijcol.463.Search in Google Scholar

Rabiah, Sitti. 2018. Language as a tool for communication and cultural reality discloser. INA-Rxiv Papers 1. 1–11. https://doi.org/10.31227/osf.io/nw94m.Search in Google Scholar

Ram, Parikshit, Tim Klinger & Alexander G. Gray. 2024. What makes models compositional? A theoretical view: With supplement. Thirty-third international joint conference on artificial intelligence. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.02350.10.24963/ijcai.2024/533Search in Google Scholar

Rapoport, Hillel, Sulin Sardoschau & Arthur Silve. 2020. Migration and cultural change. CEPII Working Paper 1. 1–55. http://www.cepii.fr/PDF_PUB/wp/2020/wp2020-10.pdf.Search in Google Scholar

Rizka, Haira. 2018. Cirebon cultural representation in the use of proper names: A study of the anthroponymy of the Cirebon society, vol. I, 1–14. Indonesia: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa. https://oailib.unej.ac.id/vufind/Record/0%20%1Fnhttp:__kbi.kemdikbud.go.id_kbi_back_file_dokumen_makalah_dokumen_makalah_1540519285.pdf.Search in Google Scholar

Sarseke, Gulnar Adebietqyzy, Miramgul Mnaidarova & İbrahim Şahin. 2022. Anthroponyms in Kazakh and Turkish languages: Historical review of their studies and structural features. SSRN 1. 1–17. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4214570.Search in Google Scholar

Sekyi-Baidoo, Yaw. 2024. The commemorability principle in Akan personal name construction. Genealogy 8(2). 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8020048.Search in Google Scholar

Sindarov, Fazliddin. 2024. Etymological characteristics of French anthroponym. Modern Science and Research 3(5). 703–705.Search in Google Scholar

Strilets, Valentyna. 2023. Approaches to assessing translation proficiency. International Journal of Philology 27(4). 89–98.10.31548/philolog14(4).2023.09Search in Google Scholar

Strzelecka, Kinga Weronika. 2020. Translation of artificial anthroponyms on the example of French and English translation of the novel “Under the Strong Angel” by Jerzy Pilch. Tertium Linguistic Journal 5(2).Search in Google Scholar

Suleimenova, Gulmira, Gulnara Syrlybayeva, Kuldirsin Saryhova, Raushan Assylova & Karlygash Sarbasova. 2020. Formation of anthroponomical system of the modern Kazakh language in higher school. Opción 36(91). 536–550.Search in Google Scholar

Temirgazina, Zifa & Olga Andryushchenko. 2019. Desemantization of the Old Turkic khan, baj, beg in the modern Kazakh anthroponyms. Turkic Studies Journal 5(1). 131–144. https://doi.org/10.32523/2664-5157-2023-1-131-144.Search in Google Scholar

Temirgazina, Zifa, Gulnara Abisheva & Rumaniyat Aselderova. 2024. Actant models of Kazakh anthroponyms-composites with substantive and verb components. Names: A Journal of Onomastics 72(1). 22–32. https://doi.org/10.5195/names.2023.2457.Search in Google Scholar

Thomas, Mousumi Tresa. 2024. The modernisation of English language in India. Educational administration: Theory and Practice 30(5). 8170–8176.Search in Google Scholar

Yang, Shuling, Natalia A. Ward & Emily Hayden. 2023. Her Chinese name means beautiful: Culture, care and naming practices. Journal for Multicultural Education 17(3). 291–303. https://doi.org/10.1108/jme-11-2022-0159.Search in Google Scholar

Yashnyk, Svitlana & Olena Turitsyna. 2023. The structure of cross-cultural competence and levels of its formation. International Journal of Philology 27(1). 103–111.10.31548/philolog14(1).2023.011Search in Google Scholar

Zumrutdal, Iryna Semeniuk. 2023. Speech Act Theories in the XXI century. International Science Journal of Education & Linguistics 2(5). 10–14.Search in Google Scholar

Received: 2024-08-09

Accepted: 2024-11-18

Published Online: 2024-12-09

Published in Print: 2025-05-26

You are currently not able to access this content.

Articles in the same Issue

https://doi.org/10.1515/lpp-2024-0025

Keywords for this article

linguoculturology; speakers of languages; nuclear constituents; word formation; individual name