WORD-BUILDING POTENTIAL OF THE ANTHROPONYM “MERKEL” IN THE GERMAN MEDIAPOLITICAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the relevant word-building possibilities of the anthroponym «Merkel» in the format of the modern German mediapolitical discourse. A variety of structural, semantic, morphological features of the analyzed type of lexical units, cognitive-discursive circumstances of their creation and actualization testify of the meaningful word-building potential of the ex-chancellor of the FRG Angela Merkel’s surname. As the result of investigation held, it is worthwhile concluding that basic word-building capabilities of the onym under research are realized mainly by means of affixal derivation and conversion. Word-building activity of the anthroponym “Merkel” reveals in the ability to make new derivatives belonging to such parts of speech as verb, noun and adjective. Presence of integral creative author deonymic constracts with the component “Merkel” in the modern German-language mass media political discourse proves special creative possibilities of the word-building resources of the analyzed anthroponym, realized in the conditions of the discursive space.

Keywords

• немецкий медиаполитический дискурс
• антропоним
• имя собственное
• деоним
• словообразование
• словообразовательный потенциал
• словопроизводство
• аффиксация
• префиксация
• деривация
• а. меркель
• german mediapolitical discourse
• anthroponym
• proper name
• deonym
• word-building
• word-building potential
• word-formation
• affixation
• prefixation
• derivation
• a. merkel