GERMAN ONYMS AS METAPHTOMYMS

Abstract

The article investigates the semantic and associative potential of German onyms to form metaphtonyms. It is concluded that metaphtonyms are cognitive blends based on the conceptual integration of metonymic and metaphoric domains of onyms. It is shown that the metonymic domain of metaphtonyms is based on the replacement of an appellative by an onym according to the principle: a specific anthroponym instead of a certain category of people, a specific toponym instead of a certain geographical category. The correspondence of the semantic content of metaphthonyms and the set of conceptual metaphors derived from the associative content of the corresponding onym is established. The effectiveness of the application of J. Pustejovsky’s doctrine of qualia-structure in determining the formal, constitutive, telic and agentive properties represented by conceptual metaphors in the structure of a metaphthonym is demonstrated.