Commemorative Names of Streets - A Deliberation on TerminologyThe author of this article carries out an analysis of the evolution of the term ‘commemorative names’ in the aspect of municipal onomastics. She primarily researches how the scope of this term has changed and which name groups have been included with that term. Moreover, she researches how the commemorative names themselves have changed. She concludes that the names of symbolic motivation that refer to cultural competencies of their users do not form a homogenous group, but they differ in genetic and motivational terms. Thus, four such groups may be identified: 1. commemorative names bearing real meaning, 2. conventional discretionary names (honorifying), 3. commemorative-discretionary names referring to local heroes, places and events, 4. names resulting from the broadly understood ‘cultural memory’, commemorating ideas, values, literary and movie characters, titles, Slavonic mythology and Polish legends, faith in its various dimensions, literary trends, artistic styles, art, etc. All four groups have their dual functions in common: deictic and cultural.
The 19th century was the age of changes in name giving in the Polish language. Most of the changes took place due to economic, political and ideological circumstances. The intensive development of the economy in the Polish Kingdom, less seen in the area of the Prussian borderlands, contributed to the naming of new hamlets. Their names are often connected to economic movements. The social and ideological changes have also contributed to the quality names. Many place names were derived from female names due to the social standing of women. All of the contextual factors mentioned above had a significant influence on the manner of creating new names in the 19th century.
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