PRÍMENÁ V KYSÁČI AKO KULTÚRNE A TRADIČNÉ DEDIČSTVO
THE EPITHETS IN SURNAMES IN KISAC AS CULTURAL AND TRADITIONAL HERITAGE

Summary/Abstract: The occurrence of epithets in surnames is an ongoing sociolinguistic process. Our aim was to record all existing epithets, preserved by current inhabitants of Kysáč (Kisac). The results of our research can be summarized as follows: 165 recorded surnames contain 742 epithets in total, some family branches have many epithets; although monomial models are most frequent, binomial descriptive models also exist; in some cases a person has two epithets; some epithets refer to several persons; the relationship between the epithets and the person they refer to is, most commonly, positive, whereas in certain cases, the epithets occur because of animosity. The role of the epithet is not only to identify the person it refers to, but it is also an important psychological, sociolological and historical factor. Epithets are a nonmaterial – cultural and traditional heritage in some way reflecting the history of our towns describing the life of the people of the time and the place. The local community stabilizes its values, norms and knowledge handing them down from one generation to another. However, there is a continuous decline of population in our local community, because of the mortality of old people and moving-away of the young. Furthermore, it is supposed that in the future, global crisis of social communication will be created due to decreased direct communication. For these reasons, our aim was to capture and record the information about epithets, which are still preserved by the inhabitants of Kysáč (Kisac) and to keep them for future generations.

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