Nová česká oikonyma typu Chodovec City, Barrandov Hills, Nové Měcholupy… a Šmoulov

• Authors: David Jaroslav

Title variants

EN

NEW CZECH PLACE NAMES OF THE TYPE CHODOVEC CITY, BARRANDOV HILLS, NOVE MECHOLUPY... AND SMOULOV

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This text focuses on new type of place names created as for the advertisement of newly built residences and blocks of flats. They are presented as new, sunny, city or country areas suitable for living, e.g. Nove Petriny, Slunecni vrch, City Park Jihlava and Vyhledy Hostivar. They use mostly English appellatives such as city, hill, park and river and the English forms of place names to raise the prestige of the real estate on offer, e.g. Barrandov Hills, Danube House and Sun House.

Keywords

EN

ADVERTISEMENT; PLACE NAMES; RESIDENCES

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 192-197
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

David Jaroslav

• Jaroslav David, Katedra ceskeho jazyka FF OU, Realni 5, 701 03 Ostrava, Czech Republic, http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/3621/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA05626