Personennamen und Recht in Russland aus sprachwissenschaftlicher Sicht

Abstract

The article discusses the linguistic and pragmatic features of personal names in the Russian language that cause name-bearers to have problems with documents (name identity) and create conflict situation in the legal field. The main reason is the fact that a personal name in Russian has a large number of morphological and orthographic variants. Variant forms can occur with declension of Russian and foreign surnames, as well as through transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin. The article gives examples of unusual personal names that have emerged in the last decade and discusses their conformity / non-conformity with the norm. A conclusion is made regarding the expansion of boundaries of onomastic norm in the modern Russian language and the fruitfulness of interdisciplinary contacts between linguists and lawyers in dealing with conflict situations related to proper names.