Publication details

Zur Problematik einiger tschechischer Ortsnamen in deutschen Texten

Title in English Using Some Czech Toponyms in German Texts
Authors

KÁŇA Tomáš

Year of publication 2006
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Lingua viva
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords Allonymie; Toponym; Czech Toponyms; Toponyms in German Texts; Corpus Research
Description Using German Exonyms (German names) of Czech Toponyms in German Texts is (due to the historical background of the Czech-German co-existence) the constant Problem for Germans, even more for Czechs who write/ speak German. A brief analysis of The Czech-German Parallel Corpus and of The Mannheimer Corpus shows the trend of using either exonyms or endonyms of the thirty biggest towns and cities in the Czech Republic.

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