The Dictionary Of Pacific Alliance Illustrious Personalities: Linguacultural Lexicography And Teaching Spanish

The present article summarizes the results of the research on the illustrious personalities of the four founding member states of the Pacific Alliance; their extra- and intralinguistic parameters are determined from the point of view of their statics and dynamics. The authors analyze and systemize the illustrious personalities of four Latin American Spanish-speaking countries and suggest their own definition of the term “illustrious personality” as an ambivalent denomination of the person and the existing body of knowledge related to the person in the collective memory of the native speakers. In this case, it is the collective memory of the speakers of the corresponding national variants of Spanish, taking into consideration their socio-historical and culturological significance for the corresponding linguacultures, which is reflected in The Dictionary of Pacific Alliance Illustrious Personalities. The authors selected 60 personalities for each country based on their linguacultural, associative and commemorative relevance. The historical, linguistic and semiotic approaches used in the research reveal the characteristics of the national identity of the four countries of the Pacific Alliance. Different types of the onomastic identification of the protagonists are established, as well as allusive and intertextual parameters of the corresponding cultures. Thus, systemizing the data about the iconic illustrious personalities of the Pacific Alliance represents a transdisciplinary task of the contemporary onomastics, Romance philology, general and applied linguistics, the theory and methodics of teaching foreign language, but it is also an important step towards creating a typology that would reflect different types of onomastic dominants within a society.