Živočichové a rostliny v názvech českých hraných filmů

• Authors: Radek Volejník

Title variants

EN

Animals and plants in the names of Czech films

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with the designations of animals and plants in the titles of Czech and Czechoslovak films from the years 1898‒2010. This topic will also be part of the author’s forthcoming dissertation dealing with names of Czech films. There appeared 228 films which names includes the term of the lexical world of animals and plants in a total amount of 2,293 movie titles. There prevails mammals (and most of them dog and cat), as regards the plants, most often are flowers and herbs. In terms of form there were mostly nouns, adjectival forms were rare. There also appeared several zoonyms besides appellatives. In view of the importance of collected names it can be aside the original meanings of the designations of animals, names with anthroponymic function, no anthroponymic metaphorical designations of persons and group nicknames.

Keywords

EN

propry; Czech movies; animals; plants; NFA; ČSFD.cz

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 57
• Pages: 120-126
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Radek Volejník

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