Między endonimem a egzonimem. Status nazw obiektów transgranicznych

• Authors: Wojciech Włoskowicz

Title variants

EN

Between endonym and exonym. On the status of the names of transboundary geographical features

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to discuss the theoretical endonymic or exonymic status of names of transboundary geographical features. The history and the most important definitions of the concepts of endonym and exonym are presented briefly. These are the definitions approved and used by the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. In the second part of the paper the newly proposed “academic” definitions and theoretical approaches to the endonym – exonym divide are discussed. The third part of the paper is devoted to the status of the names of transboundary features that results from different theoretical views on the nature of endonyms and exonyms. The last part provides arguments for the “holistic” approach, i.e. for the position that the endonymic status is valid for a name within its whole range, notwithstanding any borders dividing the geographical feature.

Keywords

EN

endonym; exonym; borderland; border; geographical name; UNGEGN

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 57
• Pages: 141-155
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Wojciech Włoskowicz

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