Folk Etymology of Medical Plant Names in Těšín Silesia: A Probe into the Current State

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://vestnik-sk.ru/russian/archive/2022/tom-64/vilimek" target="_blank" >http://vestnik-sk.ru/russian/archive/2022/tom-64/vilimek</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-64-78-86" target="_blank" >10.37816/2073-9567-2022-64-78-86</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Folk Etymology of Medical Plant Names in Těšín Silesia: A Probe into the Current State

Original language description

Folk etymology is an interesting source of the information for understanding the world view by users of the language. It can be assumed that the conception of nomination, e.g. the names of medical plants would follow the changes in the society. The questionnaire survey conducted across three generations of contemporary users of the regional dialect in 13 villages all over the Těšín Silesia explored active and passive knowledge of dialectic names of the medical plants and their etymology. The survey has shown that contemporary speakers of the language are no longer aware of mythological justification in those names. They find motivation for naming mainly in the effect or use of the herb, or in its external resemblance to objects or animals, etc. Today's inhabitants of the whole Těšín Silesia region are already largely free from the traditional mythological perception of the world. If they know it, they perceive it with great reserve as part of an outdated tradition, but no longer as a valid part of reality they experience. We find that the active and passive knowledge of folk names of medicinal plants, as well as the mythological background associated with formerly commonly used names, was irretrievably lost in Těšín Silesia under the influence of education, lifestyle changes, industrialization, and urbanization of the environment during the 20th century.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur

ISSN

2073-9567

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

Ijun'

Country of publishing house

RU - RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

78-86

UT code for WoS article

000888677200006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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