The Evolution of Toponyms in a Bilingual Context. Original and Current Forms of Oikonyms in Covasna County, Romania

One of the major encounters of identity and otherness one could witness is coming across names of places in a country, which appear in two languages This situation can be witnessed in bilingual territories or in circumstances where there is a different official language than the one of the indig...

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Main Author: Boróka-Emese Salamon
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Language:deu
Published: Scientia Publishing House 2024-11-01
Series:Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
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Online Access:https://acta.sapientia.ro/content/docs/13-681748.pdf
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description One of the major encounters of identity and otherness one could witness is coming across names of places in a country, which appear in two languages This situation can be witnessed in bilingual territories or in circumstances where there is a different official language than the one of the indigenous people. The aim of this paper is to gather the first official appearance of the names of human establishments in Covasna County, to establish their source language and examine their current forms, their translations into target language and to summarize the applied translation techniques in order to find the most common one among those appliable to the translation of toponyms.
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The Evolution of Toponyms in a Bilingual Context. Original and Current Forms of Oikonyms in Covasna County, Romania
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
toponyms
oikonyms
translation techniques
etymology
title The Evolution of Toponyms in a Bilingual Context. Original and Current Forms of Oikonyms in Covasna County, Romania
title_full The Evolution of Toponyms in a Bilingual Context. Original and Current Forms of Oikonyms in Covasna County, Romania
title_fullStr The Evolution of Toponyms in a Bilingual Context. Original and Current Forms of Oikonyms in Covasna County, Romania
title_full_unstemmed The Evolution of Toponyms in a Bilingual Context. Original and Current Forms of Oikonyms in Covasna County, Romania
title_short The Evolution of Toponyms in a Bilingual Context. Original and Current Forms of Oikonyms in Covasna County, Romania
title_sort evolution of toponyms in a bilingual context original and current forms of oikonyms in covasna county romania
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translation techniques
etymology
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