The Toponymy of the Czech Lands as Reflected in Britain (A Study in Exonyms?)

• Authors: Woodman P.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyses the use of toponyms from the territory of the contemporary Czech Republic in England/Britain since the Early Middle Age up to the 1950's. Great deal of attention is devoted especially to the use of German and Czech forms of toponyms and their relationships. The author comments on the effort of the Czechoslovac government to establish the Czech forms in Britain (German forms had been predominantly used by this time). However, the transition from German endonyms to Czech endonyms influenced the English exonyms only exceptionally (e.g. Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Prague).

Keywords

EN

ONOMASTIC THEORY; PRAGMATICS; PROPER NAMES; SEMANTICS; SYNTAX

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 48
• Pages: 176-192
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Woodman P.

• P. Woodman, Redakce casopisu Acta onomastica, Ustav pro jazyk cesky AV CR, v. v. i., oddeleni onomastiky, Valentinska 1, 116 46 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA03767545