From „Big Brother VIP” to „Celebrity Splash” – names of TV shows featuring celebrities Cover Image

Nazwy programów telewizyjnych z udziałem celebrytów – próba analizy semantyczno-pragmatycznej
From „Big Brother VIP” to „Celebrity Splash” – names of TV shows featuring celebrities

Author(s): Marcelina Kamasznik
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: media onomastics; celebrities; names of TV programs

Summary/Abstract: Present-day media have a significant impact on the creation of social attitudes, desires and ideals. A key role in this respect is played by television, as it reaches a large audience in the same time. Famous people are an important element of TV. Celebrities have a number of functions in television programs. In many cases, they provide entertainment to the public, making the media offer more attractive, sometimes they function as experts. Apart from their function, it can be said that the media do not exist without celebrities, just as celebrities do not exist without the media, for it is the performances in the media that provide them popularity and fame.This analysis focuses on names of some television programs featuring celebrities. On one hand, the names of such television shows may bring their role in modern pop culture closer. On the other hand, paying attention to the names themselves, their semantics, structure and lexical measures used, allows an insight into the most common mechanisms of nomination in this regard.

  • Issue Year: 18/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 65-76
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish