The Influence of Social and Political Context and Ideology on Naming in the XX Century

Abstract

The growing interest recently to self-identification and self-determination was reflected in studying the linguistic aspects of naming from the diachronic and synchronic positions. That is why the analysis of process of choosing names during the XXth century is conducted in this article for the example of different national cultures. If at the beginning of the century the amount of the given names was restricted mainly by the religious and traditional motives, at the end of the XXth century  the diversity of names under the stability of traditional attitudes is growing steadily. As a result of the factor analysis it was determined that social factors play a significant role in that process, including the political situation, fashion, the language taste of the epoch, the peculiarities of world outlook in one or other culture. These aspects give the process of choosing the proper name national and cultural specifics, containing the social and ideological component. The article analyzes  the trends of choosing proper names influenced by different extralinguistic conditions for the example of Spanish and Russian languages when using the comparative onomastic analysis. To derive the aforementioned processes the authors of the article conducted the statistical analysis on the base of different sources and concluded that the social and political context has the most significant influence on the process of naming under keeping the traditions of national culture.