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Prague commemorative urban toponyms between 1945 and 1989 and how they shaped the identity of the socialist city
Ptáčníková, Martina ; Harvalík, Milan (advisor) ; David, Jaroslav (referee) ; Krško, Jaromír (referee)
This Ph.D. thesis investigates Prague urban toponyms used between the end of the Second World War and 1989. While the number of texts concerned with names of public spaces within cities/towns has been rising continuously since the 1980s, no detailed analyses have been presented that focus on urban toponymy as it was used during the Communist Party reign in Czechoslovakia. This Ph.D. thesis examines commemorative names with an objective to trace the development of urbanonymy of this period, perceiving commemorative names as the most suitable instrument that can be used to describe how Prague toponymy, a politicized space reflecting historical milestones as well as claims staked by the elites then in power, formed. The theoretical part of the Ph.D. thesis seeks to both define commemorative names and offer classification thereof based on a variety of classification criteria including, without limitation, lexico- semantic and structural criteria. Additionally, the theoretical part touches upon urban space and its memory as well as on how urban landscape myths are created by officially sanctioned urban toponyms. It also addresses how urban spaces are perceived and how people orient themselves within these spaces. The second part of the thesis applies the theoretical framework to actual urban toponymy....
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Introduction to Literary Onomastics
Dvořáková, Žaneta ; Harvalík, Milan (advisor) ; Šrámek, Rudolf (referee) ; Krško, Jaromír (referee)
Introduction to Literary Onomastics Abstract Žaneta Dvořáková Czech onomastics has been traditionally well advanced; it has a high-quality theoretical and methodological foundation and is highly regarded internationally. However, unlike in other countries, literary onomastics as one of its disciplines still lacks sufficient attention. R. Šrámek - along with his counterparts abroad, K. Gutschmidt and W. F. H. Nicolaisen - points out its terminological and methodological inconsistency, insufficient theoretical elaboration and the problem of defining its scope of research. It is this call that I want to answer with my dissertation. The goal of my Introduction To Literary Onomastics is to provide a critical and complex summary and assessment of the current understanding of literary proper names and to further research the subject - especially by extending its scope with some new views of anthroponyms in fiction based on profound analyses of modern works of Czech and foreign literature of the 19th and 20th century. My research builds upon methodological-theoretical findings reached by the development of both Czech and foreign literary onomastics; at the same time, it draws on the latest findings of general onomastic theory. Excerpted works purposely represent a wide variety of literary genres, which allows us to...
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Oronyms and Hydronyms in Protected Landscape Area Jizera Mountains (Jizerské hory)
Lábus, Václav ; Harvalík, Milan (advisor) ; Šrámek, Rudolf (referee) ; Krško, Jaromír (referee)
Oronyms and Hydronyms in Protected Landscape Area Jizera Mountains (Jizerské hory) Václav Lábus Abstract: The main goal of the present Ph.D. thesis titled Oronyms and Hydronyms in the Protected Landscape Area Jizera Mountains (Jizerské hory) is the analysis of semantic and formal aspects of anoikonyms (minor place names) in the mentioned region. The thesis deals not only with contemporary names, but it also describes development of the regional anoikonymy from Middle Ages to the present times. Until 1945 the Jizera Mountains were a part of the so-called Sudetenland inhabited by German population; therefore, the thesis pays special attention to relations between Czech and German minor place names and to later processes of bohemization. In addition to the development of the anoikonymy, influenced by historical events, the thesis focuses on three typical aspects of the anoikonymical system of the Jizera Mountains: a/ variability (or onymical synonymy) from both synchronic and diachronic point of view; b/ the role of possessive motivation within onymic processes; c/ elements of local dialects in anoikonyms. A substantial part of the thesis is also the etymological interpretation as well as the detailed mapping of the development and changes in naming of major orographic and hydrographic objects.
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Word-formation analysis of Bohemian minor place-names
Štěpán, Pavel ; Harvalík, Milan (advisor) ; Krško, Jaromír (referee) ; Komárek, Karel (referee)
minor place-names from the territory of Bohemia. The parts devoted to the analysis of substantival and adjectival lexical units are divided into three sections dealing with suffixation, prefixal-sufixal forrnation and compounding. It has been necessary to approach the analysis of lexical the units forrned by suffixation selectively. The classification oflexical units formed by a certain mode become (in a majority of chapters) a starting point for the analysis of motivation of the individual minor place-names. The forrnation using the chosen word-forrnative devices is analysed on the background of the forrnation in the common-noun sphere of the language. One of the main aims of the thesis is to grasp the wordforrnative specificities in which the material of minor place-names differs from the common-noun sphere of the language. The analysis confirrns that so-called parasystemic means of word forrnation are typical of minor place names (as well as the whole proper-name sphere of the language). These means (mainly suffixes) are either not present in the commonnoun sphere (e.g. -čice, -ec1, or their typical function is different in common nouns (-ství, -inka). ln certain instances, the word-forrnation analysis conducted in this work may influence the interpretation of individual place names. This is due to the...
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