{"title":"A meseregény írói névadásának jellegzetességei","authors":"Gabriella Petres Csizmadia, Zsófia Bárczi","doi":"10.29178/nevtert.2021.10","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The study examines the personal names of contemporary fairy tale novels, the motivations, and a typology of name-giving. It is based on the preconception that the characters of fairy tale novels go through a marked process of individualization as a result of novelization, in contrast to the characters of fairy tales, due to which the genre gradually moves away from depicting archetypes and tries to endow its characters with more independent personality traits. This process of individualization is also reflected in the personal names found in fairy tale novels, which function as an external marker of the personal identity of the characters. In the first section, the study reviews the naming habits of folk tales and then draws attention to the specific name-giving motivations along which fairy tale novels give their characters names. The study notes that real personal names, fantasy names, and descriptive names found in folk tales go through transformation in fairy tale novels, and a secretive naming style, associative naming, and name-giving in line with the magical function of names, playfulness and comic effect grow in importance. Descriptive, playful, and comic personal names – resonating with the expectations of the potential recipient – play an important role among the anthroponyms of fairy tale novels, and can even affect the story with their meanings or sound.","PeriodicalId":38080,"journal":{"name":"Nevtani Ertesito","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nevtani Ertesito","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.29178/nevtert.2021.10","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The study examines the personal names of contemporary fairy tale novels, the motivations, and a typology of name-giving. It is based on the preconception that the characters of fairy tale novels go through a marked process of individualization as a result of novelization, in contrast to the characters of fairy tales, due to which the genre gradually moves away from depicting archetypes and tries to endow its characters with more independent personality traits. This process of individualization is also reflected in the personal names found in fairy tale novels, which function as an external marker of the personal identity of the characters. In the first section, the study reviews the naming habits of folk tales and then draws attention to the specific name-giving motivations along which fairy tale novels give their characters names. The study notes that real personal names, fantasy names, and descriptive names found in folk tales go through transformation in fairy tale novels, and a secretive naming style, associative naming, and name-giving in line with the magical function of names, playfulness and comic effect grow in importance. Descriptive, playful, and comic personal names – resonating with the expectations of the potential recipient – play an important role among the anthroponyms of fairy tale novels, and can even affect the story with their meanings or sound.
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Névtani Értesítő, founded in 1979, is a peer-reviewed journal of Hungarian onomastics. It is co-published by the Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies of Eötvös Loránd University and the Society of Hungarian Linguistics. In the journal, the section “Articles” releases new research results; the section “Onomastics and Events” reports on current Hungarian and international works and professional events; the sections “Book Reviews” and “Reviews on Periodicals” review the latest publications of Hungarian and foreign specialized literature. The authors of the articles published in the journal are representatives of various fields of sciences, mostly researchers of Linguistics and of the related branches of Humanities and Social Sciences from Hungary and the neighbouring countries. Submitted papers go through a blind double peer-reviewing process. The journal Névtani Értesítő keeps up relations with several international onomastic journals, many of which regularly review its issues. The issues of the journal Névtani Értesítő are published in Hungarian, with English lists of contents and abstracts.