SPECIFIC FEATURES OF CHINESE ANTHROPONYMS FUNCTIONING AMONG THE BUSINESS POPULATION OF VLADIVOSTOK IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the linguistic and linguacultural analysis of anthroponyms of Chinese immigrants at the beginning of the 20th century. The aim of the study is to examine Chinese anthroponymic models and identify the features of their functioning, linguistic and gender characteristics of anthroponyms of Chinese immigrants in Primorye at the beginning of the 20th century. The material for the study was 931 Chinese names from the directory “All business and trade Vladivostok in 1924.” Descriptive, linguacultural, historical-statistical and comparative research methods were used. The results revealed: 1) more than 40% of Chinese immigrants in Primorye have Chinese surnames 王 Wang, 李 Li, 刘 Liu, 宋 Song, 杨 Yang, 张 Zhang, 付 Fu, 常 Chan and 于 Yu, which are among the most popular in China itself; 2) Structurally, trisyllabic personal anthroponyms dominated (90.8%); 3) the most frequent hieroglyphs in male and female personal names are 福 [fu] ‘success, luck, happiness’, 婷 [ting] ‘gracefulness, politeness, grace’, which not only reveals the gender specificity of the formation of hieroglyphic patterns of Chinese anthroponyms but also reflects the Chinese diaspora’s desire for stability, prosperity, and the preservation of identity in a foreign cultural environment. The novelty of this work lies in the introduction of a unique source for scholarly circulation and the reconstruction of the anthroponymicon of the diaspora of a specific historical period. The results are important for studying the history and linguoculture of Chinese immigration and the onomastics of the Far East.