The cognitive aspects of literary communication and literary proper names: a theoretical framework for literary proprial concepts

In the paper, the author attempts to explore the cognitive potential of literary proper names with regard to the fundamental role of one’s cognition in writing and reading literary texts. This cognitive approach to literary onomastics is intended to focus on the notion that the three aspects: semiotics, semantics and conceptuality of literary proper names are primarily dependent on the minds of writers and readers rather than solely on literary texts. Taking this into account, the author offers a theoretical framework – literary proprial concepts. He purports that the discursive activity of the participants of literary communication allows for imagining, shaping and developing literary proprial concepts assigned to literary proper names. In fact, it should be recognised that literary proprial concepts function parallel to name-bearers, as the former entities constitute the focal point of cognitive linguistics, while the latter – of philosophy