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Toward issue toponyms in selected area
DIVIŠOVÁ, Kristina
The bachelor thesis is divided into a theoretical part and a practical one. The theoretical part contains general questions of two linguistic disciplines - onomasticts and toponomastics. At first, the thesis is based on the characteristics of the onomastic discipline, its history, division into subfields and its functions. The toponomastic discipline is elaborated in a similar way. In addition, attention is also paid to geographical proper nouns. The practical part is divided into two parts, both having the same goal - to pinpoint the development of toponyms, especially urbanonyms and, based on the theory, to perceive marginally the issues of these disciplines. The first chapter of the practical part is focused on the small town of Hrotovice and the second one on the town of Třebíč. Old maps as well as chronicles were used for the research. In the case of Hrotovice, the method of an interview was also used.
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The Street Name terminology in the town of Sušice
ŽEŽULOVÁ, Magdalena
The topic of my diploma thesis is the toponomastics of the street names in the southwest Bohemian town of Sušice. The aim is to analyze the development and motivation of naming the streets and squares of Sušice. Using the relevant archives, professional literature and journalistic material, I recorded the current and extinct names of the streets, their naming motivation and etymology. In addition to the mentioned sources, I applied the exploratory method, which took place in the form of interviews with local residents. Street names are arranged according to the town districts so that they follow each other logically. The information obtained is summarized in the conclusion.
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The Hypocoristic forms of schoolchildern's names in Trhové Sviny
MOJHOVÁ, Zdeňka
The diploma thesis deals with the anthroponymy, namely native (first) names and their hypocoristic changes in various emotional communication situations. Onomastics is introduced as a scientific discipline, the term anthroponym, birth name and hypocorism are also included. The practical part of the thesis captures birth names and their hypocoristic material in the selected locality, while the obtained material is then analysed both in terms of etymology (determining the origin and meaning of birth names) and word formation (recording trends in the way hypocorisms are formed).
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Motivations for Foreigners And Mixed Families Living in the Czech Republic When Choosing Children's Names
Manderlová, Eva ; Hájková, Eva (advisor) ; Janovec, Ladislav (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the motivation of choice of the children's names of foreigners and of children from ethnically mixed families living in the Czech environment. It is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical one presents the concepts of first name, onomastics, anthroponyms and others. Furthermore the bachelor's thesis describes the development of maiden names, their distribution by origin, individual motivation of name's choice and the rules of recording those names into the register office. The practical part is based on the results derived from filled in questionnaires. The results are evaluated from several different points of view. The key one is evaluation based on distribution of respondents by continents, onwards the "European" results are compared with the "non-European". Parents' length of stay in the Czech Republic is taken into account as well as the possibility of the existence of ethnically mixed parental couples accompanied by the motivation of the choice of two maiden names. The results are expressed as a percentage and also clearly shown in the various tables that are part of the bachelor's thesis.
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Metaphors in Partners' Calling
Štěpánová, Pavla ; Janovec, Ladislav (advisor) ; Chejnová, Pavla (referee)
Diploma thesis Figurativeness of denominations in a partnership based on a questionnare survey deals with a discourse of figurative denominations in partnerhips. Firstly, the position of partnership denominations within the field of onomastics is defined and a general language characteristics of these denomations is presented. Further on, the main ideas from cognitive linguistics are presented, especially the conceptual metaphor theory which has been the basis for an analysis and interpretation of partnership denominations. These have been divided into several semantical groups in the context of which the partnership denominations are being analysed.
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What will be his/her name? Motivation for naming offspring
Nedbalová, Monika ; Chejnová, Pavla (advisor) ; Hájková, Eva (referee)
WHAT WILL BE HIS/HER NAME? MOTIVATION FOR NAMING OFFSPRING Abstract The thesis deals with given names in general and in particular with motivation of parents to choice of name. The first part summarizes theoretical resources and deals with the history of researching of antroponyms. The first part further concentrates on given names, their origin, their function, variation of repertory and trends in motivation of parents to choice of name. The thesis also includes the chapter about legal regulation of given names. There is mentioned also the previous research on given names written by Miloslava Knappová in 1970's. The practical part of the thesis is based on questionnaire research on motivation of parents to choice of name. The research was carried out in Central - Bohemia Region, Liberec Region and Prague Region from December 2010 to February 2011 and respondents were the parents of children born between years 2005 - 2010. The aim of the research was to ascertain current trends and motivation to choice of name, which reasons are the most frequent and which reasons decrease in historical comparison. The practical part then deals with the relation between motivation to choice of name on one hand and age, educational attainment and place of residence of parents on the other hand. The acquired information are...
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Motivations behind the naming of descendents, and the changes in such naming throughout generations
Stuchlá, Aneta ; Hájková, Eva (advisor) ; Chejnová, Pavla (referee)
Résumé The topic of this paper is a survey into the motivations behind the naming of descendents, and the changes in such naming throughout generations. The survey found that when choosing names for their children, parents take into account various factors. The level of influence of these factors undergoes a change throughout time. 396 samples (children) were obtained for assessment from a total of 212 respondents (parents). The aforementioned children were born within the period commencing in the 1940s and stretching up to the present time - 2011. Altogether, it could be said that the sound of the name itself influences the naming process the most. This is closely followed by aspects of agreement between first name and Christian name, semantics of the specific name and family tradition. All motivations have undergone some degree of change throughout time. The most notable changes are a permanent fall in the influence of family tradition and a permanent rise in other categories of influence. Among the latter we can find those concerning the sound of the name, agreement with Christian name, and semantics of the name. Two further categories of motivation - naming children after famous personalities and after fictitious characters - although continuously rising, have not yet exceeded 10%. Their influence is...
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Minor Place-names in the Žďársko Region
Foralová, Michaela ; Hájková, Eva (advisor) ; Palkosková, Olga (referee)
This bachelor thesis contains 190 minor place-names from a part of the Žďársko region. Three types of minor place-names, which correspond to the three main chapters, are examined: hydronyms, oronyms and land names. The minor place-names belonging to a given group are listed alphabetically in each section. Each name is given the type of geographical unit and sources from which it was read out. The main objective of this work is to determine the origin of the examined anoikonyms. This research deals with word formation analysis and distribution of minor place-names into groups according to their significance. Various methods of collection, analysis and interpretation of the collected data were applied to create this work. A number of different printed materials, journals and internet resources were used to explain all the examined entries. It was necessary to attend an interview with witnesses or experts in the discipline of analysis, too.
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Metaphorical patterns in onomastics recognizable by pupils and students
Štěpánová, Pavla
This dissertation thesis deals with metaphorical patterns in a specific language material - names for partner (pet names) as recognizabled by pupils of age 14 to 16 and students of age 18 to 20. Names for partner, i. e. ways of mutual calling between a two people making a couple, were selected due to its strong metaphorical character. Their ambiguous affiliation with proper names, or common name enabled critical evaluation of structural and functional definition of proper names as well. Furthemore they enable to present a cognitive view on proper names especially based on emphasizing the conotative part of meaning and metaphorical nature of humans' thinking. The research was based on questionnaire divided into two parts and group and individual interviews with girls. The sufficient lexicological material gained due to the first part of questionnaire became a matter of metaphorical conceptualizations' analysis dealing with conceptualizations of partner (love). Thanks to the individual interviews the communication and pragmatic analysis of names for partner was performed. Second part of questionnaire and group interviews with girls enabled the detailed analysis of connotations and metaphorical perception of thirteen names intended for ladies.
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