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Emotional Expressivity in Czech Toponymy
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SYSNO ASEP 0472156 Document Type C - Proceedings Paper (int. conf.) R&D Document Type Conference Paper Title Emotional Expressivity in Czech Toponymy Author(s) Štěpán, Pavel (UJC-A) ORCID Source Title Names and Their Environment. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014, Theory and Methodology. - Glasgow : University of Glasgow, 2016 / Hough C. ; Izdebska D. - ISBN 978-0-85261-947-6 Pages s. 169-175 Number of pages 7 s. Publication form Online - E Action International Congress of Onomastic Sciences /25./ Event date 25.08.2014 - 29.08.2014 VEvent location Glasgow Country GB - United Kingdom Event type WRD Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords onomastics ; toponyms ; emotional expressivity ; metaphor ; folk etymology Subject RIV AI - Linguistics R&D Projects GPP406/12/P600 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support UJC-A - RVO:68378092 Annotation The paper deals with various kinds of emotional expressivity of Czech toponyms, with respect to the specific character of proper names, whose functions and nature of meaning are distinct from common nouns. The analysed data is formed by Czech settlement names (mostly names of village parts) and especially by names of non-settlement places (mainly field names) from the territory of Bohemia. Emotionality, whose role in the individual naming act is studied, is given by the expressive character of the lexical basis, the emotional symptom of the means of name formation, or by the specific character of the naming act. Expressing the individual emotions is analysed: negative emotions strongly prevail; expressing positive emotions is rather rare in toponyms. Emotionality given by lexical elements is often connected with metaphor. Some attention is devoted also to the development of emotional symptoms of toponyms, their loss (including the suppression of negative emotionality, realised by deliberate changes of toponyms) as well as emotionality attributed to some names subsequently, on the basis of folk etymology. Workplace The Czech Language Institute Contact Yvona Tesařová, tesarova@ujc.cas.cz, Tel.: 225 391 406 ; Marie Chybová, m.chybova@ujc.cas.cz, Tel.: 532 290 515 ; Helena Svobodová, knihovna.dial.brno@ujc.cas.cz, Tel.: 532 290 266 Year of Publishing 2017 Electronic address http://www.icos2014.com/wp-content/uploads/icos2014_vol_2.pdf
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