Trends in the nomination of modern Ukrainian literature works

Abstract

Abstract. Introduction. The titles of modern writers’ books are an original linguistic aspect requiring careful examination. The necessity to study this kind of onomastic vocabulary is clear because there is a lack of research papers in the nomination study connected with the titles of works. Purpose. To find the main trends in the nomination both in modern Ukrainian literature on the whole and in some writers’ creative work. Methods. The scientific research was carried out by means of synchronic analyses. The main method of lingual analyses used in the study is descriptive, but observation, interpretation and classification methods were used too. Results. Studying of the trends in naming typical for the works of modern literature on the whole and for some writers’ creative work in accordance with the collected material. The main trends of naming in the modern literature works are the author’s ambition to find an original form and concealing the content. It is shown in the partial or complete loss of the connection between the title and the text, tend to dialogueness, trying to set a contact with a reader from the first word, emphasizing the internal text connections with the other texts of fiction literature. namely intertextuality. The naming trends typical for some distinctive writers have been defined. Originality. The article deals with the main trends in the nomination of modern literature works and defines the intertextual connections of the morden and classical works. Conclusion. The title of the modern fiction text follows general rules of title creating, but it also has some distinguishing peculiarities. It allows to define the main trends in nomination the works of modern literature: 1) the author’s ambition to find an original form and concealing the content, 2) іt is shown in the partial or complete loss of the connection between the title and the text, tend to dialogueness, trying to set a contact with a reader from the first word, 3)emphasizing the internal text connections with the other texts of fiction literature, namely intertextuality. Besides, certain trends in nomination can be defined in the creative work of some writers. The problem of title functioning in the modern literature is not limited with represented issues. The contrastive analyses of the titles in the diachronic sense and the conceptual analyses of the titles can be interesting aspects in the prospect.