The Onomastic Code of Fantasy Worlds (an analysis of English literary prose)

   The article analyzes the artistic onomasticons of works of three genres in which a fantastic reality is created, namely fantasy novels, dystopian novels and science fiction. The article is based on the idea that, despite the high degree of conventionality, a literary genre is a dynamic category, and genres can arise on the basis of other genres by borrowing their essential features. Affiliation works of fiction to a certain genre in the first place given it a chronotope, but amid the fast-paced literary industry, and given the wide variety of literature, primarily the novel genre, as well as the rapidly changing aesthetic needs of modern man, the chronotope can be regarded as the only gianroberto element of a literary text.
   The purpose of the analysis is to demonstrate that the fantasy worlds created in the works of the selected genres differ not only in the chronotope and the type of opposition, but also in the type of onomastic code.

   The main methods of research were the methods of linguistic stylistic, statistical analysis (counting method) and the method of interpretation, which allow: to establish the role of proper names in the spatial-temporal and genre organization of a work of art literature; to identify the percentage of different types of proper names used in one work; interpret the results obtained and relate them to the main purpose of the article.

   The material of the study was the works of T. Pratchett, R. Bradbury and A. Asimov.
   The analysis carried out in the framework of the article is not exhaustive, but it confirms that the works of the three genres in which the fantastic reality is described differ in the types of oppositions, chronotope and onomastic code, the genre-forming role of which is particularly emphasized in the article.

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