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The article, which analyses material acquired through poll collection, focuses on the awareness of inhabitants of Poznań (aged 35 to 85) of colloquial urban onymes, and is related to an earlier text by the authors, which presented results of the same poll among students of the Faculty of Polish. It turned out that commonly known and used names constitute almost half of the onymes listed in the poll (Akumulatory, Bema, Botanik, Ceglorz, Chwiałka, Dąbrówka, Deptak, Krzyże, Kupiec, Marcin, Marcinek, Okrąglak, Paderek, Pigalak, Raczyńscy, Raszeja, Struś, Szamarzewo, Teatralka). The stability of urban onymy in the language of inhabitants of Poznań is confirmed by phenomena such as: 1) transfer of names on new urban objects (Adaś, Akwarium, Ceglorz, Gargamel, Kanty, Krzyże, Młyn, Paderek, Szamarzewo, Teatralka); 2) extension of referentiality of names because of changes in extralinguistic reality (Chwiałka, Dąbrówka, Marcinek); or 3) creation of new urban onymes (Bulaj, Cyryl, Biblia), including derivates (Bema – Bemowo, Chwiałka – Chwiała).
Onomastica
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2015
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vol. 59
377-387
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The aim of this article is to outline a planned, large-scale, interdisciplinary research project of Cracow’s urban onymy. The accepted methodology for the diachronic and synchronic description and interpretation of urban names takes into account linguistic, sociological, historic and anthropo- logical perspectives. This methodology will allow this category of proper names to be regarded as a social communicative tool, as well as a cultural heritage preserving the history of the city, and the memory of its inhabitants. It will also be seen as a source that documents the geographic-topograph- ical past of the city, and/or the human activity within the economic and culture-created sphere. The more complex elaboration on Cracow urbanonymy in the form of a monograph and an electronic dictionary consisting of legal, semi-legal and colloquial names, aims to illustrate and preserve the history and traditions of the centuries-old and multicultural city. Its purpose is to show the stability, changeability, variability and decline of proper names, as well as their growth. The sociological outlook additionally emphasizes the role of nomina propria in the acquirement of space and orientation in Cracow, as well as in the search for, or construction of, individual or collective identities among the inhabitants of large agglomerations.
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