Expressiveness of folk sobriquets and nicknames based on locations

Abstract

The author of the article attempts to determine whether sobriquets and nicknames describing a person in terms of his/her place of residence may be the carriers of valuation. Most texts dedicated to unofficial anthroponyms suggest that descriptive nicknames do not reflect an expression, but a statement of a fact. However, the research material collected in the years 2004–2020 shows that a lot of personal sobriquets are expressive. It is because their spatial aspect is connected with a whole range of connotations that ascribe some stereotypical features to people heralding from a particular area, and such features are specified on the basis of the existing cultural contact.