Co stojí za nečitelností současných japonských rodných jmen : jména s narušeným vztahem mezi zvukovou a grafickou podobou

• Authors: Barešová, Ivona

Title variants

EN

What makes contemporary Japanese names hard to read : the phenomenon of rising discordance in the sound-character relationship in given names

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

One of the current issues concerning Japanese given names that has been widely discussed in the media and increasingly in academic literature are the so-called kirakira nēmu („shiny, sparkly names“), characterized by unusual and interesting sound and graphic forms. A typical feature of most of these names, written in Chinese characters, is a discordant sound- -character relationship, which makes them hard or even impossible to read. This type of name started to appear in the 1980s, experiencing a boom at the turn of the millennium. The rather negative consequences of this phenomenon, however, started to appear only recently, when generations with a high concentration of such names started to become socially active (attending schools, entering the workforce, etc.). Through an analysis of a corpus of 8,390 current children’s names, this paper seeks to identify particular types of deviations in the sound-character relationship and thus pinpoint what it is that makes current names hard to read.

Keywords

CS

onomastika; rodná jména; japonská filologie; japonština

EN

onomastics; first names; Japanese philology; Japanese language; Japanese given names; kirakira names; native readings of kanji; Sino-Japanese readings of kanji; nanori

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 56
• Pages: 8-24
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Barešová, Ivona

• Acta onomastica, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic