Notes on functions of proper names in literature

In this paper, I would like to introduce some classifications of proper names in literature that are currently used in the Czech onomastic research. They are based on the typology of M. Knappov as well as German or Polish onomastics. I would also like to summarize some of my observations of the literary onymic function. Onymic functions are only one aspect which plays a role in the choice of the literary name. The others are literary genre, culture tradition, the author's poetics or contemporary poetics as well as formal linguistic and semantic aspects, etc. In my opinion, literary onymic functions should be understood in this wider framework, in their mutual relations, as they are intertwined, complementing each other and working together. One name can have multiple functions and all literary names must be analysed in the framework of the concrete literary text.