Zvukomalebná pojmenování ptáků v angličtině

• Authors: Petr Kos

Title variants

EN

ONOMATOPOEIC BIRD NAMES IN ENGLISH

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper aims to analyze onomatopoeia in bird names in English. Three basic types of onomatopoeic bird names are distinguished: pure onomatopoeia, in which the names reflect the birds’ vocalizations without any other subsequent morphological changes; onomatopoeia with added meaning, in which the names sound as if the birds were saying human utterances, and morphologically motivated onomatopoeia, in which the onomatopoeic bases take part in other word-formation processes, namely compounding and suffixation. The phonological analysis of purely onomatopoeic names searches for tendencies in their syllabic structure and in the make-up of the onset of the first syllable. The last section deals with arbitrariness in onomatopoeic names.

Keywords

CS

ptačí názvosloví; zvukomalba; fonetická motivace; fonologická analýza

EN

bird nomenclature; onomatopoeia; phonetic motivation; phonological analysis

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 96
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 74-81

Contributors

author

Petr Kos

• Ústav anglistiky, FF JU | Branišovská 31a, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic