PECULIARITIES OF THE USING NAMES IN THE AESOPIAN LANGUAGE OF THE FABLE (REFERENTIAL ANALYSIS)
The article highlights the approach to the analysis of the features of the reference names of the fable characters of I. Krylov and I. Dmitriev. It is argued that one of the means of creating an allegorical meaning in fables is the name (nominal group) in the case of its conditionally-defined reference use. The conclusions are confirmed by the results of a comparative analysis of data obtained by continuous sampling of the names of characters from the collections of works by I. Krylov and I. Dmitriev. The article is addressed to philologists and linguists who are interested in the theory of reference and the language specificity of fable texts.