Unofficial Monumentonyms: Towards the Definition of their Onomastic Status

The paper is devoted to unofficial names of monuments and urban sculpture, or monumentonyms. author discusses their usage in field interviews, popular media, Internet discussions, excursions, texts on local history, dictionaries. Particular attention paid the aspect variability these names. proposed comparative model for describing “morphology” suggests invariance a monument’s subject (that parodied an name) changeability verbal form onym. metaphoric nature discussed type makes them similar riddles. shows that this verge between toponymy ideonymy, as well proper folklore. Their cases literary colloquial speech do not always allow us unambiguously qualify onomastic folklore units. Such formulas are often part evaluative statements comments about (their subject, position space, etc.), they can be found jokes (sometimes just stating fact monument called certain way), become objects individual group naming and, finally, used full sense. These limited social milieu exist short time. “canonization” determined by inclusion history discourse, popularization etc.