Czech place names and their exonyms in parallel corpus  – between preserving the original form and adaptation

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17250%2F23%3AA2402N3F" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17250/23:A2402N3F - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17651/ONOMAST.67.12" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.17651/ONOMAST.67.12</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17651/ONOMAST.67.12" target="_blank" >10.17651/ONOMAST.67.12</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech place names and their exonyms in parallel corpus  – between preserving the original form and adaptation

Original language description

The aim of the paper is to present strategies for the adaptation of Czech geographical names (their translation in particular) in a foreign language texts. Using the parallel corpus InterCorp, version 13 (part of the Czech National Corpus) we look at the variants of Czech toponyms (referring to objects in the territory of the Czech Republic; settlement names, names of natural features, urban names) used in English and German translations. We analyze and interpret the strategies used to incorporate Czech toponyms into non-Slavic translations; in addition, we highlight the potential which the corpora (parallel corpora in particular) have for the research of toponyms. Given the centuriesold historical contacts between Czech and German, most Czech toponyms have a German variant (i.e., Namenpaaren), and these German variants are used rather extensively in translations. This, of course, is very unlike the case with English, but, from a historical perspective, these German variants often stand behind the English version of the place name.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-09310S" target="_blank" >GA22-09310S: Quantitative Onomastics: Starting Points, Concepts, Applications</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Onomastica

ISSN

0078-4648

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

prosinec 2023

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

205-220

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85182934094