Notes on functions of proper names in literature

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Dvořáková, Žaneta
Notes on functions of proper names in literature.
Onoma. -, Č. 53 (2018), s. 33-48. ISSN 0078-463X
Institutional support: RVO:68378092
Keywords : literary onomastics * functions * proper name
OECD category: Linguistics
Method of publishing: Open access
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This paper introduces some classifications of proper names in literature that are currently used in the Czech onomastic research. They are based on the typology of M. Knappová as well as German or Polish onomastics. The paper also summarizes author's observations of onymic functions in literary works. 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 aswell as formal linguistic and semantic aspects, etc. The author argues that 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.
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