Lytvyn L. Onomastic system of literary prose (on the material of French novels of XIX-XX centuries).

A complex philological approach combining linguistic analysis with elements of literary analysis in course of the investigation of poetonyms in French novels of XIX-XX centuries is proposed in this work. The research is focused on the study of onomastic names and their functioning in the literary work. The structure of onomasticon of novels under the question is described. On its basis our classification of french poetonyms is composed. All poetonyms are structured according to the following semantic types: antroponyms, zoonyms, toponyms, chrononyms and names of artefacts. From the point of view of their origin poetonyms may be real names (linguistic and referential) and fictitious names (intertextual and author names). From the point of view of functional role of poetonyms in the development of the plot are distinguished actant names that are poetonyms naming characters, background names that are poetonyms creating the background of the development of events and characteristic names that characterizepeople, objects, situations. The thesis shows that in the text poetonyms act as a means of cohesion through the use of variants of names and contextual equivalents. It was proved that literary trend and individual style of the author influence the choice of onomastic names in the literary work.