LEXICAL-SEMANTIC CONFIGURATION OF TOPONYMS IN ROMANIAN FAIRY TALES
LEXICAL-SEMANTIC CONFIGURATION OF TOPONYMS IN ROMANIAN FAIRY TALES

Summary/Abstract: This communication aims to approach the names of places in the literary text, particularly in fairy tales. Starting from the premise that the fairy tale fictional world is structured on the duality principle, good vs. evil, we will show that the names of places that can be found in the fabulous discourse are also classified in good and bad. However, there is no clear delimitation between the two toponymic categories, some names changing, at some point, their meaning from good into evil and vice versa. Thus, we will investigate the lexico-semantic status of toponyms in the fabulous universe in diachronic perspective while focusing both on classical and modern fairy tales. At the same time, we will underline the similarities and the structural and content differences between the Romanian toponyms (the formation of the toponymic appellations, predominant in this type of text). The approach is interdisciplinary, the areas concerned being anthropology, ethnolinguistics and semantics. The corpus is taken from Romanian fairy tale anthologies, as well as from children / cartoon films.

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