PODILLYA’S TOPONYMS IN THE MIKHAILO STELMAKH’S TEXTS
Journal Title: Записки з ономастики - Year 2015, Vol 0, Issue 18
Abstract
The article deals with Podillya’s toponyms in the Mikhailo Stelmakh’s texts. The toponym problem was described in a series of Ukrainian and foreign studies. The subject of the research is Podillya’s toponyms in M. Stelmakh’s novels, object — prose «Truth and falsehood», «Blood is thicker than water», «Thinking of you», «Brody» etc. The purpose of the study was to analyze the group of names which represents the historical and ethnographic region — Podillya in the M. Stelmakh’s texts. The purpose of this article shows the following tasks: to distinguish from M. Stelmakh’s prose toponymic vocabulary that describes Podillya; classify and analyze them. Podillya it is the native place not only for Michael Stelmach, but also for most of his literary heroes. Toponyms in the writer’s novels real, connected with the story line and aiming at the most detailed description of the location of the characters and the place of historical events. The writer turns into a symbol horonym Podillya in his texts. We count 561 toponyms in the writer’s texts which shows this region. Toponyms indicate cultural, national and historical peculiarities of the region, pass the genetic code of the nation from generation to generation. Hydronyms will serve as a material for further research.
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T. Vrublevska
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