The study of the functioning of an allusive anthroponym in an artistic text is of considerable scientific interest, but within the framework of traditional philological analysis it is not possible to reveal the mechanisms of actualisation of cultural and historical information of an allusive anthroponym and analyse the peculiarities of its interaction with the receiving context. The article proposes to investigate an allusive anthroponym as a means of verbalising an allusive anthroponymic concept-prototype, which is a categorical concept. The emergence of the prototype is a consequence of the adaptation of human thinking to the dynamics of the world around us. The main contextual features of the actualisation of the allusive anthroponymic concept-prototype were revealed on the material of the stories
of the American writer O. Henry. The analysis of contexts showed the presence of deep cognitive changes in the structure of the allusive anthroponym verbalising the concept-prototype, which are related to its appellativisation. The allusive anthroponym is used in the function of a nominative name, as evidenced by the plural indicators, the presence of definite and indefinite articles, the predicative use of the name, the possibility of using prepositional and postpositional attributes.
For citation: Ananyina M.A. Prototype as a form of realization of an allusive anthroponymic concept, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2025, iss. 2, pp. 83—90.