abstract: part of the discursive space anthroponymic sobriquets may acquire peculiar characteristics determined by communicative-pragmatic features of corresponding texts and communicative situations in question.In terms of their functional and heuristic perspectives anthroponymic nicknames serve to be the result of optimization with respect to linguistic means and intellectual effort saving, which refers to the semantic and structural peculiarities of the units under analysis, which can be regarded as bo
journal: Issues of Applied Linguistics