anthroponym

Definitions

The name of a person, especially a surname.

Equivalents

Examples

“If an anthroponym associated with a denotatum contains all the information about it, the goal of the author of a street name⟳ who uses this anthroponym to create⟳ an urbanonym consists in foregrounding a certain layer of information about the primary denotatum, from which this name⟳ was taken for secondary use⟳. […] Therefore, concepts in commemorative urbanonymy form⟳ a ‘bundle’ of associations, ideas, and memories (comp. Stepanov, 2004), that appear⟳ in speakers as a reaction to these names, but at the same time speakers react⟳ primarily to the anthroponyms that form⟳ the basis of urbanonym units, and the street names themselves act only as ‘carriers’ of specific meaning, […]”

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