The article analyzes semantic and axiological transformations of the classical fairy-tale plot «Cinderella» being observed in such verbal creolized texts Runet distractive discourse as anecdotes, jokes, statuses, demotivators, memes. These anonymous variative speech products are regarded samples so called «naive» gender knowledge. Being an inalienable part Russian Internet discourse, they const...

The paper discusses the literary proper names Larin, Larina, Lariny (the Larins) from Pushkin’s novel Eugene Onegin, aiming to identify most important factors behind choice of this surname. To end, researcher establishes a reference for each poetonyms, considers their distribution in text, examines contexts primary and repeated character naming, explores semantic potential these characterizatio...

The article deals with the problem of gamer’s name (nickname) in professional sphere gaming, as a specific form main self-presentation tool virtual linguistic personality Internet communication. highlights peculiarities and functional characteristics over 100 English nicknames participants League Legends game (years from 2016 to 2021), which have not been dealt onomastic studies. A nickname is ...