Inwencja nazwotwórcza bydgoszczan (na materiale nazw pawilonu «Akwarium i Terrarium» w Ogrodzie Fauny Polskiej w Bydgoszczy)
The Bydgoszcz residents’ creativity in language naming processes (on the basis of names for the “Aquarium and Terrarium” pavilion in the Polish Fauna

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the present work is an attempt to review and classify the proper names for the “Aquarium and Terrarium” pavilion. The names were submitted by the inhabitants of Bydgoszcz within the “Competition for the name of the pavilion in the Polish Fauna Garden in Bydgoszcz”, organized in November 2012 by the Mayor of Bydgoszcz. The typology is based primarily on the semantic criterion according to which the individual names were included in specific groups with common or similar motivation. Also the structural criterion was not without significance in the classification of the names. The submitted proposals may be considered chrematonyms. The submitted proposals of names constitute a rich and varied set, they are a result of a variety of choices in which information about the word is connected with the information about the object, but also they go beyond the object itself on the basis of associations with the mental images (imaginative) referring to various pieces of extra-linguistic reality. In many cases they refer in a wide range to the communicative competence of the Polish language users, to their knowledge, firmly embedded in the socio-cultural context, which allows them to use various sign systems functioning in a certain community. Literature, cinema, television and the Internet can be such systems. A characteristic feature of the submitted nominations is also crossing the linguistic boundaries, which results in forming multilingual names. On the one hand the submitted names are original and in many cases reveal the language creativity of their authors, on the other hand — they reflect broader trends in naming.

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