place names; semantics; semantics of proper names; historical semantics; a quantitative analysis; collocations

Text se zabývá historickou sémantikou proprií, a to na příkladu kvantitatitivní analýzy materiálu Českého národního korpusu. Pozornost je věnována také jejich přenesenému užití, např. matefory, v ideologických textech. Analýza ukázala, že dominantní užití toponym je ve funkci orientační a lokalizační.

The text is focused on proper names and their historical semantics as illustrated by the journalistic texts collected in the Czech National Corpus (Totalita - corpora of written texts of the Communist era, SYN - synchronic written corpora). Our research showed proper names can be regarded as key words typical for a text created in a particular period. The problem of place names as proper names with mostly orientative function or proper names with primarily symbolic value are researched with their collocations via t-score method (a quantitative test). The place names are presenting themselves as mostly orientation and localization language elements. Their figuratively usage as metaphor and metonymy is appearing rarely; however, this is typical of place names with an ideologically and contemporary important value only.