ANTROPONYM TRANSFORMATION IN THE LINGUISTIC ASPECT

The article discusses: 1. Individual anthroponyms under appropriate conditions can become ethnonyms, as a rule, having passed the stage of connotonymization. Those were Ivan, German, Fritz, John, John Bul, in jargon - Karapetyan, Mamed, Osman (in Don dialects), Khachik. 2. All the indicated anthroponyms - ethnonyms have morphologically mastered, there is no such uniformity in the graphic characteristics. 3. In the process of ethnonymization, a chronological factor plays a certain role: the last four anthroponyms perform this function in modern jargons. 4. Becoming a nomination of an ethnos, the original anthroponym can expand (John - John Buhl), as well as enter into derivational (Ivan → Ivanov → Ivan Ivanovich, Mamed - Mamedia) relations, as well as be phraseologized (Ivanov - Petrov - Sidorov). 5. Parallel to ethnonominization, stereotypes of perception of one or another nationality are taking shape. 6. The study of the process of ethnonymization in connection with the process of stereotyping is of undoubted scientific interest, primarily in the field of linguoimagology, linguoculturology, ethnopsycholinguistics.