Accidentia of onym: Towards the extension of text-onomastics terminology
Proper names in a literary text are usually considered within the framework of literary onomastics. The article proposes the expansion of the conceptual apparatus of literary onomastics towards the philological branch “name-in-text” (T.M. Nikolaeva), which has a greater connection with semiotics, by introducing the term accidentia of onym. With the help of this term, it is possible to describe in more detail the variation of proprial status, which does not fall under the process of deonymization or the figure of antonomasia. One of the instances of onymic accidentia is an onymic phantom - the name as an empty shell, a product of phatic (auto) communication, as well as a travesty onym - a proper name in lieu of a common noun in the text. Selecting onymic phantoms has implications for the theory of precedential names, since the phantom quality of the name does not correlate with the quality of intensionality acquired by precedential name. The article also illustrates the arguments about the non-standard status of the name in the text by examples from Boris Kocheyshvili’s poetry, Tatiana Tolstaya’s and Milan Kundera’ prose. It also concludes that accidentia of onym provides great opportunities for language play and poetic discourse.