What’s in a name?

МБОУ «Школа №41»
Канавинского района г. Нижнего Новгорода
Научное общество учащихся

“What’s in a name?”

Выполнила: Крохина Дарья,
ученица 10 а класса
Научный руководитель:
Городжанова О.М.,
учитель английского языка

Нижний Новгород 

2017
Table of content
Introduction………………………………………………………………….…… 3

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   Difficult choice…………………………………………………………….....5
   
2. 
   First English names…………………………………......................................11
   
3. 
   First Russian names………………………………………………………….15
   
4. 
   Russian and English names: similarities…………………………………....17
   
5. 
   Banned names……………………………………………………….……..18
   

Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………. 20
List of literature……………………………………………………………..……22
Appendix………………………………………………………………………....23

Introduction 
Our planet is now home to about 7.3 billion people and each person has his own name. In connection with this, it becomes clear that there are the popular names that parents often give their children. But both these names are changed over time and in different parts of the world.
The naming of people is a fascinating subject that varies so much around the world and tells us so much about a country or society. Everywhere names mean something, but often the meaning has been lost or obscured by time. The study of personal names is known as onomastics. Behind this forbidding word lies an utterly absorbing subject that tells us so much about history, geography, tradition and culture. 
“What’s in a name?” asked Shakespeare’s Juliet. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”¹, she concluded; in other words that the name of a person is irrelevant. However, research of psychologists suggests that our name can have a direct effect on our personal happiness. 
The power of a name and its value has long been immortalized in prose, poetry, and religious ceremony. Everyone recognizes himself or herself by name. 
The relevance of this topic is very interesting and informative to know what guided to a greater extent when choosing a name.
The aim is to research similarities of the Russian and English names to identify common cultural values of Russian and English 
Object - English and Russian names 
Subject - structure and semantics of Russian and English names 
Methods:
We used a method of component analysis as an effective means of studying the lexical meaning, as well as methods of continuous sampling and field work ( in the collection of factual material), the reception of quantitative calculations, which allowed us for various reasons, and in some cases used etymological analysis.
We used an interview method. We interviewed a number of students who study in school number 41.
The material was collected in several stages: 

1. 
   continuous sampling personal names from various sources (anthroponomical dictionaries, literary texts and materials available on the Internet, etc.) 
   

2. 
   analysis of the results of questioning and interviewing 
   

3. 
   minimizing body personal names through repeated differentiation, frequency of use nicknames, abbreviations, diminutive, endearing name forms. 
   

The relevance of the research is in the structural and semantic description of informal personal names and in the clarification of anthroponomical functioning in various linguistic-cultural communities.
The scientific novelty: this research work gave a complete description of the structural and semantic, motivational identity of personal names in different structural languages; identified patterns of naming personal names of people with similar meanings in different cultures and matched their tendencies; conducted a comprehensive study of the interaction of national cultures at anthroponomical units.
The theoretical significance of the project is to explore the cultural identity of personal names in the Russian and English anthroponomical systems, comparative study of personal names by which it is possible to identify their universal and culture-specific properties, and that the work contributes to the modern Russian and English onomastics in contrastive and typological study of Russian and English languages.
The practical significance of the project is application to the learning of the Russian and English languages.
Research Hypothesis
Despite the different structure of languages Russian and English and the differences in the mentality of people, members of these ethnic groups, the naming system has a similar history and trends, as well as two completely different people have names with the same value, it indicates the similarity of people’s values (religion, happiness, joy, love, peace, valor etc.)

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