Names and naming from the viewpoint of intercultural pragmatics: the Romanian system of anthroponyms

Abstract

This paper discusses several aspects of the evolution of anthroponyms from the perspective of intercultural pragmatics. The first section of the article defines intercultural anthroponymy and its system of concepts. Special attention is paid to the concept of cultureme and its discursive function. The second part of the paper establishes the main orientations and results of this recent field of research, in which the Internet and the phenomenon of globalization are two determining elements. The third part of the article is dedicated to corpus analysis and reveals the specifics of Romanian onomastics over the last years. The author proposes a view on Romanian recent onomastic research which treats anthroponyms as a subcategory of culturemes.