The Ede community in the Central Highlands, Vietnam has created famous epics, such as Dam san, Khing Ju, Xinh Nha, etc. These are oral works of art, the result of the past collective composition process, which is attached to and directly serves different activities in community life. The Ede epic is a literary genre with high integrity, in addition to its literary and linguistic value, it also contains precious documents about culture, history, ideology, and indigenous people. Based on the theory of the art of exaggeration, combining survey, statistics, and classification of sentences using the art of exaggeration in the epic Khing Ju of the Ede people in the Central Highlands, Vietnam, the article provides an overview of the model. exaggerated structural model in the Khing Ju epic, explaining the elements in the model, such as The element is exaggerated; Exaggerated aspect factor; Exaggerated relational factors; Magnifying factor; Magnified enlargement factor. Simultaneous analysis of objects participating in the exaggerated structure, such as people; animals, and plants; some objects in daily life. Thereby clarifying the value of the exaggeration method for the content of the work and expressing the cultural characteristics of the community.   Received: 10 January 2023 / Accepted: 25 February 2023 / Published: 5 March 2023

In linguistics, when studying nouns, specialists often divide them into two large groups, common nouns, and proper nouns. Based on general meaning, common nouns are divided into smaller groups, such as nouns with generalizing meaning, nouns without generalizing meaning. Nouns with generalizing meaning can be divided: nouns of units, nouns of people, nouns of objects, etc. Nouns for people include nouns denoting kinship relations, social relations. These are general nouns of people. They take up a sizeable amount and are an important word class of nouns. Nouns of people indicate not only people but also expressive nuances, cultural expressions of individuals or communities. The article clarifies the characteristics of structures, semantics, and functions as Ede vocative addressing words in Vietnam, thereby explaining the Ede people's cultural characteristics through nouns of people.

Personal names are classified as proper nouns belonging to the noun category in a language. They function as nominators, addressing a particular name of a person in a given communication setting. Each community or ethnic group has distinctive cultural and linguistic features in naming a person. The Ede's names are a subset of the proper names, with their semantic and structural characteristics. Upon the basis of reasoning and the survey and categorization result of Ede personal names in Vietnam, this research paper analyzes and illuminates the structural and semantic features of the components in proper names, such as middle names, given names, and surnames of the Ede. Thereby, this also indicates modern-day's Ede people's pattern in naming and sheds light on their cultural traits through their names.