A Nickname as a Means of Characterizing and Evaluating a Character (Based on the Material of Historical Prose by Belarusian Writers)
The article views the nicknames of the characters in the historical prose by modern Belarusian writers Georgy Marchuk, Vladimir Domashevich, Claudia Kalina. The author of the article singles out and describes the types of nicknames according to the degree of their semantic activity: straight-talking and indirectly-talking nicknames. The origin of poetonyms (poetic names) is characterized. A thematic classification of nicknames is presented, which reveals the system of associations existing in the linguistic consciousness of members of the Belarusian linguistic culture. The article describes the pragmatic significance of nicknames in the context of historical prose.