Publication details
Model obecného konceptu a struktury funkční onomastiky
| Title in English | The Model of a Generic Concept and Structure of Functional Onomastics |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Ze studiów nad nazwami własnymi. Terminologia. Teoria i metodologia badań. Zagadnienia nazwotwórstwa |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://wydawnictwo.umcs.eu/produkt/5302/ze-studiow-nad-nazwami-wlasnymi-terminologia--teoria-i-metodologia-badan--zagadnienia-nazwotworstwa |
| Keywords | onomastics; general theory of onomastics; onomastics and language communication; model of functional onomastics; elements in the model of functional onomastics |
| Description | The aim of this article is to capture the basic knowledge pertaining to the general theory of onomastics and explain the two dimensions of onomastic abstraction: a) advanced abstraction of individual elements pertaining to proper names as a class, and b) onomastics as a “whole”, as an even more advanced type of abstraction. An aerial view of the subject is presented. Theoretical re-search of onomastics as a “whole” enhances the knowledge of its nature in terms of its conceptual and functional aspects as well as its structure. The concept of “onomastics as a whole” integrates elements (categories, functional elements) that determine the “contents” of onomastics as a “whole”. In the model of functional onomastics, they represent “functional elements”. Besides functionality, the model can also be characterised as systemic, dynamic, and processual. Each element in the mod-el of functional onomastics results from the previous element, which determines it. The “society’s need for proper naming” represents the initial element in the chain that ends in the “use of the proper name in communication” element; the relationship between them can be described as “onomastics and language communication”. In conclusion, onomastics can be defined as an interdisciplinary sub-discipline of linguistics studying the social need to use individualised naming, its practical man-ifestations in a language as well as functions and position of individual proper names in all types of communication. This general definition applies to onomastics as a “whole”. |