A proper name in the legal context

Abstract

The improvement of the legislation in the onymic system is one of the actual problems serving to the development of onomastics according to the demand of the time. The basic means of the regulation in the sphere of the onomastics is the codification of the official forms of these names. Codification (codifying) in onomastics is the systematization of the normative juridical acts connected with the proper names by improvement them from the point of view of form and content and regulation of the language norms. The social and political changes in the society cause the formation of the different disputed speech situations and as a result of it increase the applied problems demanding the special linguistic and interdisciplinary explorations. To regulate these conflicts mostly demands juridical interference. The object of the article is the proper names in the Azerbaijan language. The purpose of the investigation is to determine the principles of the codification activity, analyze the functions carrying out by the proper names, propose motions for the systematization and coordination of the problems in the sphere of Azerbaijan onomastics. The methodological base of the article consists of the systematic analysis, descriptive, complex and classification methods. The article deals with the study of the specification of the usage of the proper names in the juridical sphere as a language unit, codification of the name forms, the factors substantiating this process and the main directions of the onomastic activity.

Keywords

• onym
• codification
• juridical linguistics
• onomastic system