Functions of derivatives from the surnames of political and public figures in political discourse

Bolgova Natalia Sergeevna

The article is devoted to the description of the functions of derivatives from the names of political and public figures in political discourse. The work shows that the main functions of derivatives from the names of political and public figures are nominative, evaluative, predicative, referential, discourse-forming, modus, reflexive, pictorial-expressive, appellative, compressive and functions of agonality and categorization. It is proved that these functions are realized, among other things, due to innovative derivational modifications, such as: a word-formation model with the PRO– prefix, with the –MANIA and –POBIA components and the ZA– and ANTI– prefixes. The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that the study of derivatives from surnames in the aspect of the relationship between language, culture and consciousness can be useful for preventing conflicts in the context of communicative perversion.

Keywords:political discourse, functions of proper names, surnames of figures.