Preservation of identity versus natural process: changes of proper names during their adaptation into Czech

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Preservation of identity versus natural process: changes of proper names during their adaptation into Czech

Original language description

The paper focuses on different aspects of adaptation of proper names of foreign origin into Czech. From the point of view of the individual language levels, changes can be observed on phonetic level, graphical level (e.g. transcription or transliteration from different graphical systems) or morphological level (declension of a majority of names for the sake of their incorporation in the sentence structure). Another adaptation strategy is represented by name “translation” or accommodating a name to the Czech naming system (e.g. feminization of foreign surnames or assigning categories “given name” and “surname”, although the name forms belong to different naming categories in the language of departure). The data of the inquiries addressed to the Czech Language Consulting Centre may show what attitudes are adopted by the Czech language speakers (from enforcing a maximum of Czechified forms on one hand to refusing any adaption at all because of preservation of the name holder’s identity on the other hand). The paper also tries to answer a provocative question: is it possible to use foreign proper names in Czech without any adaptation?

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

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

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Onomastica Uralica

ISSN

1586-3719

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

17

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

15-28

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