ASTIONIMS OF UKRAINE: ONOMASTIC AND LINGUOCULTURAL ASPECTS

Abstract

The article-review analyzes the monograph by V. Kotovych «The oikonymy of Ukraine as a linguocultural phenomenon» which was published in 2020. The names of the settlements of Ukraine in the context of onomastics and linguoculturology are researched in the work; linguocultural portraits of modern astionyms of Ukraine are modeled. The author considers each of the astionyms as a condensed linguistic and cultural text, the coding of which took place at the time of assigning a name to the settlement and the reading is carried out during all periods of its existence. The researcher proves that the names of modern Ukrainian cities clearly convey the spirit and trends of the era that called them to life, projecting name-centric processes to form the name-forming coloring of other settlements. The conducted research gave grounds to the author of the monograph to conclude about the oikonymic space of Ukraine as a linguocultural phenomenon, the units of which serve as a source of knowledge of the culture of the nation, its mentality and national character.