Specific Ways of Ironic Interpretation of Anthroponyms in Aphorisms
Journal: Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures]
Year: 2022

The paper aims to describe the ways of interpreting anthroponyms in aphorisms constructed as a definition and similar in structure to a dictionary article. The study reveals that in aphorisms-definitions, frequency anthroponyms (individual proper names), which are not included in the dictionaries of explanatory dictionaries, are used as heading units. A large illustrative material shows that within the explanatory part of the aphoristic definitions for the characteristic of anthroponyms, non-tra