This paper highlights the structuralist elements which can be and are currently applied and the way research insights change with the diversification of language sciences. Traditionally, proper and common names are studies separately, as nouns. Today, with the emergence of pragmatic antroponymy, its operational components of context of performance and act have come into focus. The act of communication is analyzed by the cooperation of various disciplines: sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, philosophy of language, semiotics, stylistics, text theory etc. The new vision brings into antroponymy two basic concepts: antroponym Vs. appelative, which are used in the latest issues of academic grammars and in recent studies.