Personal Nickname, a Figure for a Socially Conditioned Context (Exemplified by Nicknames from the Island of Pa？man)

Sa？etak We have assumed that nicknames, the pragmatic supra-names created by methods of meaning transfer, are in fact figures for general culturally, ethnically and historically marked lexemes. Nicknames are, namely, formed on the basis of three logical-semantic relations: similarity or analogy, correspondence or contiguity and the overlapping of the referent and the lexical content. The source of motivation is not (most frequently!) in the form of the lexeme, but in the content of the appellative and the situation in which the content has come to the foreground. A nickname as an onomastic sign assumes certain characteristics of a common noun (Judas = traitor), but it does not completely lose its basic function of naming, i.e. identification