Names and naming and their cultural context in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld

The Discworld is a comic fantasy universe created by British author Terry Pratchett, where over 40 of his novels are set. This diverse world is home to a lot of different cultures and (human and non-human) characters, living cheek by jowl, regardless of species, gender or life status. However, with many allusions, the Discworld is in several ways a parody of our own world, culture and society. All of this make it a very fruitful subject of literary onomastics. The paper analyses, using many examples, the complex multicultural and linguistic context and embeddedness of literary names and naming in Pratchett’s Discworld.