Unofficial urbanonyms of Yakutsk

The subject of the study is unofficial urbanonyms of Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): unofficial names of intra-city objects in the colloquial speech of city residents are investigated. The linguistic appearance of the city of Yakutsk is multifaceted and diverse. In consists of several layers that interact with each other and create a special toponymic subsystem of the city`s language. We were interested in a layer of unofficial urbanonyms, the study of which is an important direction in the study of the regional specifics of urban speech. The novelty lies in the description of the functional, structural-semantic and word-formation features of urbanonyms of the city of Yakutsk, which have been little studied to date. Previously, a linguistic analysis of unofficial urbanonyms of the city of Yakutsk has not been carried out. This explains the relevance of the study. The purpose of the study is to identify the peculiarities city of Yakutsk. In this regard, the task is to identify their functions, structural features and motivational basis. The article analysed the material obtained through observation of the live speech of residents of the city of Yakutsk, written speech of Internet forums, publications in the press, reference, scientific and popular science publications, as well as data obtained from a survey of teachers and students of the M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University. The research methodology is based on the identification, description and linguistics analysis of unofficial urbanonyms of the city of Yakutsk. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the system of unofficial urbanonyms is an independent and unique toponymic image of the city, which has linguistic value, since in it we find linguocultural and local history information.

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