STRUCTURING THE FIELD OF ZOONYMS WITH THE “PIG” ARCHISEME IN RUSSIAN DISCOURSE

The scientists’ attention is constantly drawn to the field approach to the language study. However, the issues of structuring units of one of the central onomastic categories (zoonyms) within the field concept in the Russian linguistics are not thoroughly considered. In this paper, zoonyms are studied as a productive onomastic category. As a basis for the research, field theory was chosen. The paper gives a brief overview of research on the field issue in linguistics, analyzes the terminology of the field concept, specifies the features of the onomastic field structure, and shapes the field of zoonyms which nominates a pig in Russian discourse. The basis of the study is onomastic units of a real zoomicon in the field of animal husbandry; zoonyms, which name characters of literary works and television projects; zoonyms, which acquired a secondary nomination in the texts of Russian, discourse (journalistic, pedagogical, advertising, artistic, and anecdotal). All onomastic units denoting pigs and piglets in the texts of Russian discourse are structured according to the field principle: nuclear, central and peripheral elements are distinguished. The scientific significance of the work is the construction of the onomastic zoonyms field with a “pig” archiseme as an ordered set of proper names with a designation of system-structural relations and connections. Conditions are considered under which a process of transition of zoonyms from one zone of a field to another is possible. The obtained research results indicate that the chosen scientific paradigm is optimal for the study of onomastic vocabulary.