Nicknames people as a reflection of their individuality (the example of the village Davydivka Samara region)
There is classification of nicknames villagers Davydovka Volga District Samara Region, recorded on the basis of the author's personal recollections. As a classifier were selected person-individual features of people describing their external signs by various (often negative) character traits, behavior, through the intrinsic qualities, on the specifics of the speech, according to the peculiarities of gait and posture, on the growth and characteristics of a body at profession ancestors by name and surname, profession, on hobbies, ethnicity. It has been shown that most of the nicknames of people characterized by different (often negative) characteristics and behavior. Some people may have two totally different in origin nicknames. People giving nicknames differ ingenuity and insight. Residents of the village having the same qualities that are very accurate moniker synonymous. It is shown that the nickname individualize human, so anyone who had come for the first time in our village man understood and nicknames of those individual qualities of the person who gave him the coded information with a clear meaning. Therefore, the nickname is always emotionally saturated. This is achieved through the use of special prozvischnyh foundations, metaphors, suffixes.