Russian onomastics. Tutorial. Bondaletov V.D.

There is no person who would not be interested in his name (anthroponym), the name of his native village or city (toponym), the names of stars, constellations, planets (cosmonims). These are the words-orientes. They are studied by linguists, historians, ethnographers, geographers, astronomers. The science of their own names (onomastics) is an integral part of the training of teachers for schools, gymnasiums, lyceums; Social scholars, culturalists, folklorists are not dispensed with it. The study guide for students “Russian Onomastiki” for the first time in 1983 has long become a bibliographic rarity.

The present, the second edition of “Russian Onomastics” is supplemented by 13 articles that deepen the idea of ​​the modern theory of onomastics, its methods and research techniques acquaintance with the composition of the Russian name (set and use of names), with the new aspects of studying the names of their own (stylistic, functional-statistical, comparative-consolidating). Significant in the coverage of publications, the section “Literature on Russian and general onomastics (1985 -2012)” will save specialists to search for the necessary books, and students and curious readers will captivate the diversity of the world of their own names in which a person lives and lives.