THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF LINGUOCULTURAL STUDY OF OIKONIMIYA OF UKRAINE

Abstract

In the article outlines the principles of linguocultural study of the oikonimes of Ukraine. It is noted that the appeal to the onomasticon as a material for linguocultural studies is logical, because it contains socially most important and stable quantizes of ethno-cultural information. The reasons for the lack of a comprehensive linguocultural study of the names of settlements system in Ukrainian linguistics are found. Create an unconditional hierarchy with the definition of where linguistic and cultural information is greater, and where less, it is virtually impossible. It is stressed that today, scientists, carrying out studios in a linguocultural perspective, appeal to different classes of onymes. In some groups of its own names, it seems «lies on the surface» (microtoponymes, urbanonimes, ergonimes), others hid behind the deep layers of the ancient ethnolanguages and ethnocultures (hydronyms), around the other as it creates a linguistic and cultural aura (anthroponimes). It is substantiated the idea that each ecicon should be considered as a collapsed linguocultural code, the encoding of which occurred in the time of birth, and explication carries linguistic, cultural, historical, geographical, ethnographic, often figurative, metaphorical information. The language coded in the name of the settlement and the cultural information are very closely interwoven with each other. Let’s talk about peculiar linguocultural codes, whose explication in the oikonimes necessarily touches many lexicalsemantic groups of apellates and different classes of onymes. It was emphasized that linguocultural studios should be defined not only by considering linguistic units but also by disclosing their meanings, shades, connotations and associations, and for this it is important to take into account encyclopedic information and to define clear principles for the selection of such information. The methodology for the discovery of linguistic and cultural information in oikonimiya should be based on the analysis of the name of the populated object as a linguistic and cultural mark of the representation of the onomastic code. It is proved that the lexico-semantic, structural-word-building, etymological aspect of the study of oikonimikon became a good ground for today’s linguocultural studies. Spiritual and material culture of the name of the given person, ways of interaction between man and nature, peculiarities of perception and comprehension of the surrounding reality, migration and colonization processes, spiritual and material culture of the name of the given person, ways of interaction between man and nature, peculiarities of perception and comprehension of the surrounding reality, migration and colonization processes, understanding of its responsibility for the inhabited and named object is the way of linguocultural study of onymes through the prism of anthropocentrism.