Hodonyms and Agoronyms as an Expression of Ideology, Culture, and Propaganda in Poland During the Second World War

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Pages: 228-248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/MEPS6558

Abstract:

The article presents the results of the analysis of the trends in the changing of the names for streets and squares of a selection of towns and villages in the Busko County during the Second World War. The examples are sorted because of the function of the name: the hodonyms, which show a direction, the hodonyms with the lokalization function, the possessive hodonyms, the hodonyms with describing function, the names of streets, which remind about the important people or events. Despite of it is drawn the attention to the tendencies of the naems’ giving in each place.

Keywords:

hodonym, agoronym, war, linguistic image of the world, German language

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