TY - JOUR AU - Yakovleva, Olga PY - 2020/11/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Author’s meaning to the symbolic values of onyms in the texts of modern Odessa poets JF - Bibliotekarz Podlaski JA - bp VL - 48 IS - 3 SE - Odessa: literary theme - symbol - myth DO - 10.36770/bp.530 UR - https://bibliotekarzpodlaski.pl/index.php/bp/article/view/530 SP - 269-282 AB - <p>The article deals with the problem of the lexical meaning of the word in the broadest sense. Today, linguists distinguish lexicographic meaning, psychologically real, associative, conceptual and symbolic meaning of the word. Proper names have the so-called noun meaning. The symbolic meaning in onyms depends on extralinguistic factors. Most often, onyms with symbolic meaning are used in poetic texts, because firstly, they are distillations of specific concepts, and secondly, an author’s meaning that express emotional-evaluative relationships that can be added to them. In the poetic texts of modern Odessa authors most frequently were mythonyms with symbolic meaning (72% of the total number of analyzed texts), secondly biblical expressions (24%), and proper names of famous personalities (4%) were third place. Author’s meaning was expressed, as a rule, with a positive assessment; emotions of irony, self-irony, and sense of humor.&nbsp;</p> ER -