The second life of Hašek’s Švejk character – Personal names in a corpus perspective Cover Image

Druhý život postav Haškova Švejka – antroponyma v korpusové perspektivě
The second life of Hašek’s Švejk character – Personal names in a corpus perspective

Author(s): Jaroslav David, Jana Davidová Glogarová
Subject(s): Computational linguistics, Czech Literature
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: Jaroslav Hašek; The Good Soldier Švejk And His Fortunes in the World War; personal names; surname; opinion journalism; corpus analysis; appellativization; metaphor

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the second life of personal names in Jaroslav Hašek’s novel Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války [The Good Soldier Švejk And His Fortunes in the World War]. Considering the distinct character types and their denotative potential, it focuses on the following topics: 1) appellativized forms of the characters’ proper names and their word-formation characteristics (e.g., the type švejk – švejko¬vat, švejkovina, švejkovský, etc.); 2) the use of characters’ proper names in contem¬porary opinion journalism as metaphorical and metonymic designations, as well as in quotations (e.g., “Tak nám prodali krematorium, paní Müllerová.” [“Well, so they sold the crematorium on us, Mrs. Müller.”]). The analysis is based on the opinion journalism corpus of the Czech National Corpus SYN, version 11.

  • Issue Year: 65/2024
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 265-276
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Czech
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