LINGUISTIC AND CULTUROLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ODONYMY (BASED ON NAMES OF CHEBOKSARY AND ALATYR STREETS)
The purpose of the study is a linguistic-and-culturological analysis of the research into the odonymy of the cities of Cheboksary and Alatyr. The authors have described and systematized all the major toponymic models of odonyms of these ancient cities both in the structural-semantic and derivational aspects, studied not only the old names of the streets, which reflected physical-and-geographical characteristics of the localities and the named objects themselves, but also new and lately emersed names, which were formed under the influence of specific socio-political realities of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. There were also found out common and distinctive features of odonyms of the regarded cities. The descriptive method was the main method of collecting and collating the material, which was supplemented by the statistical method and the method of description by lexical and semantic groups. Scientific novelty of the research lies in the introduction of a new onomastic material. Besides, it is the first time that the odonymy of Cheboksary and Alatyr has been comprehensively described in a linguistic and culturological aspects. The practical significance of the work is that the findings of the research based on the analysis of the presented factual material can be used when studying the development of not only the regional but also general Russian onomasticon, as well as in the development of courses on onomastics, toponymy, lexicology, linguoculturology, in the work of a school onomastic club and by the commissions on naming streets, as well as in lexicographical practice. As for the prospects of the given research, the authors plan to make a linguistic-and-culturological analysis of odonymy of all cities and towns of the Chuvash Republic and to define major tendencies in the development of modern.