Diversity of Names for Tver Inhabitants in the Local Press (Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries)

The paper deals with names with which the local press referred to Tver inhabitants as a whole at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21th centuries. The author analyzes the dynamic of their use from the 1990s, when the historical name Tver was restored, to the 2010s (studying statistical da...

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Main Author: Maria V. Akhmetova
Format: Article
Language:Bulgarian
Published: Moscow State University of Education 2017-07-01
Series:Slovene
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Online Access:http://slovene.ru/ojs/index.php/slovene/article/view/382
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description The paper deals with names with which the local press referred to Tver inhabitants as a whole at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21th centuries. The author analyzes the dynamic of their use from the 1990s, when the historical name Tver was restored, to the 2010s (studying statistical data for the use of these katoikonyms in Tver press, as well as some texts in local media which contain the local community’s reflections about the names for Tver inhabitants). The study reveals both preferences of different local media, and the influence of philological recommendations on the language of media. In 1990, when the city Tver was given back its original name, one of the local newspapers published an article by professor R. D. Kuznetsova (Tver State University), where the katoikonym tverityane pl. (tverityanin sing., tverityanka sing. f.) was declared to be the most appropriate due to its appearance in the historical period of forming “all-Russian national norms of language” and its usage in the Russian literature of the 19th century. This variant was not very characteristic for the local usage of the 20th century (unlike the others), but due to the linguistic recommendations it gained normative status and asserted itself in almost half of the local media. In the rest of the media other variants were used: tveritchi pl. (tverich sing., tverichanka sing. f.) or tverichane pl. (tverichanin sing., tverichanka sing. f.). The recommendations mentioned above also furthered the marginalization of the variant tveryaki pl. (tveryak sing., tveryachka sing. f.), which was almost wholly forced out from the local newspapers. The author considers the success of the intentional reactualization of the least popular onym to be caused by the long period (almost 60 years) when the city Tver carried the name of Kalinin, and any derivates from the name Tver were thus forced out to the periphery of usage.
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spelling doaj.art-f042924259264c35842ffe10aad599702022-12-21T22:48:12ZbulMoscow State University of EducationSlovene2304-07852305-67542017-07-0171308336206Diversity of Names for Tver Inhabitants in the Local Press (Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries)Maria V. Akhmetova0Российская академия народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте РФ, МоскваThe paper deals with names with which the local press referred to Tver inhabitants as a whole at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21th centuries. The author analyzes the dynamic of their use from the 1990s, when the historical name Tver was restored, to the 2010s (studying statistical data for the use of these katoikonyms in Tver press, as well as some texts in local media which contain the local community’s reflections about the names for Tver inhabitants). The study reveals both preferences of different local media, and the influence of philological recommendations on the language of media. In 1990, when the city Tver was given back its original name, one of the local newspapers published an article by professor R. D. Kuznetsova (Tver State University), where the katoikonym tverityane pl. (tverityanin sing., tverityanka sing. f.) was declared to be the most appropriate due to its appearance in the historical period of forming “all-Russian national norms of language” and its usage in the Russian literature of the 19th century. This variant was not very characteristic for the local usage of the 20th century (unlike the others), but due to the linguistic recommendations it gained normative status and asserted itself in almost half of the local media. In the rest of the media other variants were used: tveritchi pl. (tverich sing., tverichanka sing. f.) or tverichane pl. (tverichanin sing., tverichanka sing. f.). The recommendations mentioned above also furthered the marginalization of the variant tveryaki pl. (tveryak sing., tveryachka sing. f.), which was almost wholly forced out from the local newspapers. The author considers the success of the intentional reactualization of the least popular onym to be caused by the long period (almost 60 years) when the city Tver carried the name of Kalinin, and any derivates from the name Tver were thus forced out to the periphery of usage.http://slovene.ru/ojs/index.php/slovene/article/view/382катойконимыназвания жителейязык смиязыковая модаязыковая рефлексия
spellingShingle Maria V. Akhmetova
Diversity of Names for Tver Inhabitants in the Local Press (Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries)
Slovene
катойконимы
названия жителей
язык сми
языковая мода
языковая рефлексия
title Diversity of Names for Tver Inhabitants in the Local Press (Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries)
title_full Diversity of Names for Tver Inhabitants in the Local Press (Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries)
title_fullStr Diversity of Names for Tver Inhabitants in the Local Press (Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries)
title_full_unstemmed Diversity of Names for Tver Inhabitants in the Local Press (Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries)
title_short Diversity of Names for Tver Inhabitants in the Local Press (Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries)
title_sort diversity of names for tver inhabitants in the local press late 20th and early 21st centuries
topic катойконимы
названия жителей
язык сми
языковая мода
языковая рефлексия
url http://slovene.ru/ojs/index.php/slovene/article/view/382
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