Linguocultural content of Russian proper names
The article develops the concept of "linguocultural contents of proper names" within the anthropocentric paradigm of modern linguistics through the prism of linguocultural studies of Department of Russian Language and Teaching Methodology of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia and research of the Donetsk Onomastic School. The results of the analysis reveal that a proper name possesses both language and cultural information. The language information, or content, is the name proper as well as its phonetic and grammatical design and functioning. Cultural information, or content, is not only etymology and etiology of the proper name, but also its national cultural component.