Linguocultural Features of Anthroponyms in “Almost Heaven” by Judith Mcnaught

The article analyzes how anthroponyms which are proper personal names reveal the linguistic and cultural identity of characters in Judith McNaught's 1990 novel "Almost Heaven" which represents American romantic literature set in the early nineteenth century British noble society. The study uses onomastics and linguoculturology and literary semantics as its theoretical framework to examine how character names in the story reveal social class distinctions and gender beliefs and national identification and cultural historical knowledge. The analysis shows that the novel's anthroponym system functions as an intentional semiotic framework which the author uses to display and interpret the cultural symbols of Anglo-American aristocratic society.