Rola czynników ideologicznych i językowo-kulturowych w procesie zmian nazwisk
The role of ideological and linguistic-cultural factors in the process of change surnames

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the factors which influence the process of change surnames in Poland. Firstly, the author discusses the activity of political and ideological considerations. They caused polonization foreign surnames in the postwar period, e.g. Hoffman → Liwiński. These factors may also act today in frontier areas, e.g. Gawryluk → Błahuszewski. Secondly, the author described the role of linguistic expression and negative stylistic value of bases of some surnames as the most frequent reasons of these changes, e.g. Żaba → Żabski. The author emphasized that the issue of changes of ridiculing surnames was connected with a problem of meaning of proper names which versus for common words don’t have lexical meaning. In certain circumstances some names (this is surnames) receive meanings of different kind: metaphorical, associative or cultural. The issues discussed in the article may be an area of interest of different linguistic methodologies: not only onomastics, but also of stylistic, linguistic axiology and cognitivism.

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