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Bemerkungen aus sprachhistorischer Sicht zur ältesten Urkunde von Greiz und ihrer landesgeschichtlichen Auswertung
Get PDFIn 2009 the oldest documents concerning the place Greiz in Eastern Thuringia were published by a historian. This article now provides a linguistic approach to that publication and its interpretation of the mentioned area in Medieval times. The results may be considered as a contribution to a book of reference for place names of Eastern Thuringia. In this respect some questions have been asked, e. g. whether the region along the river Weiße Elster between the places Weida and Plauen had really been an unsettled area until the 12th century. There is hard evidence that the historian’s assumptions are wrong because of the obvious Slavonic names of settlements in this area dating from the 8th until the 10th centuries. Based on a document from 1209 – respectively its copy from 1510 – as well as on a document from 1225 several facts are discussed in detail with consequences for toponymy and history of settlement with the help of historical linguistics. Thus it becomes evident that it is necessary to exchange ideas and to communicate for representatives of history as well as linguistics. At the same time it is obvious that the publication of documents and their analysis by historians will always be very helpful for linguistic exploitation. As a result the prospective edition of a historical dictionary of place names in Thuringia or of Eastern Thuringia respectively has been asserted as dependent on the continuous co-operation between historians and linguists
Umstrittene Deutungen Lausitzer Ortsnamen
Get PDFIn an extensive article the well-known philologist Heinz Schuster-Šewc presented his views concerning our “Book of Place Names in Oberlausitz” (Upper Lusatia). He attempted to refute a substantial number of place name meanings and suggested new explanations. In some instances his interpretations were preferable to earlier explanations; however, in far more cases his arguments were not conclusive, so that the current explanations can still be considered valid
Leipzigs Name im Lichte seiner Frühüberlieferung: Karlheinz Hengst zum 75. Geburtstag am 2. März 2009
Get PDFDie intensive Ortsnamenforschung der vergangenen 50 Jahre hat dazu geführt, dass auch der Name Leipzigs heute in einem etwas veränderten Licht gegenüber den Darlegungen in Band 8 der Schriftenreihe „Deutsch- Slawische Forschungen zur Namenkunde und Siedlungsgeschichte“ von 1960 erscheint. Insbesondere ergaben sich neue Aspekte durch die Sprachkontaktforschung / Kontaktonomastik seit den 1980er Jahren. So bleibt zwar die Deutung des Namens Leipzig – alt *Lipsk(o) – zu dem aso. Appellativ lipa ,Linde‘ unangefochten, doch handelt es sich bei den diesbezüglichen Namenbelegen offensichtlich um die hochmittelalterliche Umdeutung eines älteren Vorgängernamens mit einer anderen Grundlage. Die genauere Überprüfung der Gesamtüberlieferung führte dazu, die abweichenden Erstbelege bei Thietmar von Merseburg und den frühesten anderen Bezeugungen in Urkunden und Annalen kritischer zu bewerten
Names as a potential source for conflict: a case in point from the USA: How Germantown, Glenn County, California, became Artois
Get PDFToward the end of World War I the name of the post office station "Germantown" at Germantown, Glenn County, California, was changed to "Artois" which eventually resulted in the name change of the village itself to Artois. This paper compares current present-day accounts of the incidents leading to the post office name change with the actual course of events as they could be reconstructed from contemporary 1918 newspaper reports. It continues to trace the change as it shifted to the name of the township itself and concludes with a second look at the present-day accounts of the past historical events
Motivwandel bei der Namengebung deutscher Unternehmen: Eine diachronische Analyse (am Beispiel der Genossenschaften)
No full textThere is a considerable public interest in the name-giving of top-ranking firms in the German economy. However, the world of business doesn\u27t completely consist of, or depend on global players listed on the DAX index, on the contrary - to a large degree economic life is dependend on SMEs, small and medium sized enterprises. If we want to gain some insight into actual name-giving tendencies in German commerce and industry we ought to take a closer look at the diachronic development of company names. In this article account is given of such an analysis of names in the cooperative sector. Cooperative organisations allow to differentiate between several branches of the economy, and between varying sizes of companies, keeping at the same time the legal form of the enterprise invariable. As most important results of this inquiry we can conclude: Big companies directed strongly at interregional and international activities under strong competition make use of the most modern elements in their name-giving. They prefer elements such as abbreviations, deviations from orthographical norms, and fancy names/neologisms, and rather tend to avoid elements like owner names or geographical indications (like the seat of the company, or its sphere of action)
\u27Madame Royal\u27. Eine kritisch-diskursanalytische Untersuchung zur printmedialen Repräsentation von Polit-Figuren im medialen Diskurs am Beispiel des französischen Präsidentschaftswahlkampfes
No full textThe article illustrates \u27nomination” as a special form of reference, containing an evaluative perspective of the language user on extra-linguistic entities (cf. REISIGL 2003. In the media discourse nomination referring to people appears as classification or as anthroponyms and can be instrumentalized. The corpus consists of the nominations of the candidates to the presidential election in France 2007, the nominations contained in the daily press of the 3 months preceding the election. In the field of nomination as anthroponyms it could be shown that in the media discourse the use of the family name alone and the use of both first name and family name can be considered as neutral, while the use of a nickname or the first name alone establishes a relation of inferiority, a phenomenon that could be observed only in the case of the female candidate Ségolène Royal. Nomination as classification of the other hand established the following representations: The hyper real figure of Nicolas Sarkozy was represented as an authoritarian, strong, experienced politician with a problematic character and a migration-background. Ségolène Royal was constructed as an emotional woman who is hardly known in the political landscape and has little political experience. François Bayrou was represented as a solid, Christian down-to-earth personality, at the third place behind the other two and Jean Marie Le Pen as extreme right wing and the oldest candidate behind the other three. It could be shown that nominations (as classifications or anthroponyms) construct representations of the candidates which correspond even before the elections to their result
Beobachtung - Benennung - mündliche Bewahrung über Jahrhunderte. Die Mundartform Schiebock für Bischofswerda als unklarer \u27Merkzettel\u27
No full textIn this article the dialect form and its history of a German place-name is discussed. Although this dialect-form has already been found to be of Slavonic origin according to a leading linguist of Sorbian languages this article adds another comparable Sorbian vernacular form of an other place-name unconsidered up till now. In this way two dialect forms are the sources in character and value of primary Old-Sorbian place-names formed in the Middle Ages and have been existing thus without any written traditional forms for many centuries
Personennamenforschung in Ungarn
No full textThe study provides an outline of the most important results of personal name research in Hungary. Its main objective is to assist colleagues who have no information about research projects in Hungary because to date they have hardly been dealt with in summaries published in the main world languages (English, German, and French)
Kelten in Europa und geographische Namen als ihre Zeugen. Betrachtungen zu Herbert Pilch, Die keltischen Sprachen und Literaturen, im Kontrast zur \u27Entdeckung\u27 keltischer Namen in Ostdeutschland
No full textThe article gives a survey about a new manual to the Celtic languages in Western Europe. Its author is the German linguist Herbert PILCH (university of Freiburg). As a book of reference the title is especially recommended to students of Onomastics as well as to readers with interests in Celtic names or names of Celtic origin in other languages. It stands in sharp contrast to a pseudo-scientific tendency of explaining anthroponyms and toponyms in Eastern Germany with the help of “Celtic roots\u27 based on an old obsolete publication with a large following in recent times. The main argument there is the statement German people spoke Celtic based dialects up to the Middle Ages and thus all names have only been horribly bent by adapting to the modern German language. The book Die keltischen Sprachen und Literaturen is therefore of especial importance to refute unscientific opinions and intentions