ęzykowo-kulturowy obraz części ciała ludzkiego (głowa i jej elementy) utrwalony w nazwiskach niemieckich i polskich
The linguistic-cultural image of parts of the human body (the head and its elements) perpetuated in German and Polish surnames

Summary/Abstract: The article scrutinizes linguistic and cultural image of the human body, limited to thelexeme ‘head’ and shown in the light of Polish and German names extracted from existinganthroponymic lexicons. As the analysis showed, the method of describing petrifiedforms points to a model of human nomination based on characteristic features of humanappearance, both in Polish and German. The expressive value of these types of surnamesdepends on the connotations that their appellative meanings trigger in the recipient’smind. They will be associated with the description of the head and parts of it, which consistsof information concerning its size, shape and colour. The face, which is at the front, is a representative part of the person and thus it is subject to the most comprehensiveview, which is evident in the richness of the onymic material presented.

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