Toponyms in an anthropological linguistic perspective

• Authors: Balazs Geza
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The paper investigates names of settlements, of parts of settlements, and in some cases names of institutions, exploring some aspects of the anatomy of place-names (i.e., the process of their coming into being and the changes they undergo). These aspects are as follows: (1) collective toponyms (common names for groups of places), (2) abbreviated place-names (name distortions), (3) form variants (name distortions), (4) giving new names, (5) folk-etymology (e.g., pejorativisation), and (6) coining variants for place-names (the poetry of toponymy). Recently collected data involve a growing number of new collective toponyms in the wake of regional cooperation; abbreviations and variants of existing place-names keep turning up, and new place-names and variants are generated for various administrative or individual reasons. Furthermore, there are examples of the pejorativisation of place-names (i.e., mockery), but toponyms also provide ground for poetry (poetic competitions or individual resourcefulness).

Keywords

EN

ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TOPONYMS; MOTIVATIONS OF GIVING NAMES TO SETTLEMENTS; TOPONYMS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Hungarian Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 132
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 348-354
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Balazs Geza

• Geza Balazs, no address given; contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA079022