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Journal

2009 | 50 | 1 | 63-79

Article title

Soutěž na pojmenování nového města - Havířov

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A competition to name a new town - Havířov

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CS

Abstracts

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The aim of the article is to show an onomastic aspect of the Czech commemorative place name Havířov coined for a new socialistic city founded in 1955. This place name was chosen from more than 2,000 proposals. The public competition arranged to create a politically and ideologically convenient proper name brought very interesting linguistic material. On the one hand, the proposed names were created according to the common models of Czech place names, a type with ending -ov was the most frequent, e.g. Bezručov, Leninov, Mírov, Uhlov. On the other hand, these names reflected the influence of Soviet toponymy. There appeared the non-Czech suffixes as -sk (Budovatelsk), -grad/-hrad (Ocelograd, Bánohrad), and forms like compound names (Živnobyt), abbreviations (Drapi, Chrč) or place names created from other proper names without any suffix (Fučík, Molotov, Moskva). We focused our attention on Havířov’s system of street names as well. This system was proposed as one complex with the city name. Street names in Havířov were motivated by the names of persons and symbols connected with the communist era and its ideology, e.g. Korčaginova, Leninova, Pionýrů or Rosenbergových.

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Journal

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50

Issue

1

Pages

63-79

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ARTICLE

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  • Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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