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Urban names and etymological reinterpretation

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Walkowiak J. B.
Národopisný věstník
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2022
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vol. 63
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issue 2
483-496
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Etymological reinterpretation, less aptly referred to as folk etymology, is a cognitive process by which less familiar (”weak”) lexical units are ‒ on various levels of consciousness ‒ reassigned to other semantic, syntactic or inflectional categories under the influence of “stronger” words or patterns, more familiar to language users. This phenomenon can be observed not only in common nouns but also among proper names, though the latter are less often subjected to scholarly analysis in that respect. Moreover, while there exist studies of folk etymology in settlement names and microtoponyms, usually analysing legends of how names of towns, villages or landscape features originated, not as much attention has been so far devoted to this phenomenon in relation to urban naming in Poland. This article studies the etymological reinterpretation of Polish urban names (mostly those of streets). Drawing on Witold Cienkowski’s 1972 classic model of classifying the phenomena of folk etymology, it offers its adaptation to fit the specificity of hodonyms by replacing the category of meaning with that of motivation and by the inclusion of inflection as an additional factor. The proposed classification is illustrated with examples from Polish cities.
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Zabawy znaczeniem w felietonach Tomasza Olbratowskiego

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Gaze M., Katedra Lingwistyki Stosowanej i Kulturowej I. F. P., mateuszgz@poczta.onet.pl
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Kształcenie Polonistyczne Cudzoziemców
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2014
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vol. 21
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Celem artykułu jest opisanie kilku mechanizmów językowych, które wykorzystał Tomasz Olbratowski w felietonach, komentujących aktualne wydarzenia w Polsce. Do gier, które zasadzają się na zabawie znaczeniem, należy zaliczyć: reinterpretację etymologiczną, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem komizmu opartego na skrótowcach, zmianę formy graficznej i aliterację głoskową.
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The aim of the article is to describe a few language mechanisms used by Tomasz Olbratowski in a series of radio segments commenting the current events in Poland. Among the described mechanisms there are: etymological reinterpretation (especially humor based on abbreviations), the change of the graphic form of a word, and alliteration.
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