Особенности номинации аптек: семантическое зонирование

Abstract

The report considers the features of the pharmacy nomination in three cities of similar size and status in Belarus, Poland and Russia – Vitebsk, Bydgoszcz and Smolensk; semantic zones of vocabulary participating in formation of names of pharmacies – “system”, “treatment” and “health” are revealed; the groups of names forming these semantic zones are established (in the zone I: the order of discovery, location, purpose, status, in zone II: experts, names, medicines, herbs, in zone III: the professional branch, desire, effect) and the specifics of their use. It is emphasized that the analysis of this category of onyms will contribute to the creation of a more complete onym picture of each of the regions, will allow to reveal both general and specific nominative and cultural features of the compared onomasticons.