Singularity of proper names in Wes Anderson’s film story “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

UDC 81`42:791

DOI 10.20339/PhS.5-23.048               

Dukhovnaya Tatiana V.,

Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the Applied Linguistics

and Information Technology Department

Kuban State University, Krasnodar

e-mail: tdukhovnaya@mail.ru

The article analyzes proper names in Wes Anderson’s film “The Grand Budapest Hotel”. It examines structural, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of the film proper names. The results of the research show that fictional characters’ names perform different functions, namely, characterizing, stylistic, expressive, referential. Etymological meaning of a personal name is an important source of information about characters. Geographical names are all fictional but they are formed according to word-building patterns of different languages. Names of hotels take a special place in the film onomastic system. Other names of objects allude to some real historical phenomenon. Proper names play a significant role in building, representing, and understanding the fictional world depicted in the film created by Wes Anderson.

Keywords: proper names, onomastics, film, personal names, name functions, Wes Anderson.

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