This study deals with illustrated etymological maps used as a new tool for detecting content preconceptions in proper names. This tool is characterized in the context of a constructivist education in which the error presents a desirable resource. Its application is realized in four phases and the greatest attention is paid to the third one – the analysis. The analysis points to more aspects of the graphical interpretation of the toponyms.
The author deals with characteristic traits of personal names in the social background in which children are educated. Especially the importance of the individual child’s own name and of the teacher’s name at the moment of the beginning of school attendance is stressed. While younger children more or less only reproduce the units of the limited inventory of words, older children start to play with the language and create new language units: the author deals especially with the creation of nicknames.
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