| Title: | Les noms de lieux d’origine pionnière en Afrique du Sud XVIIe – XXIe siècles: entre ‘conventionnalité’ et ‘non conventionnalité’ |
| Author: | Michel A. Rateau |
| Publication: | Numele și numirea. Actele Conferinței Internaționale de Onomastică. Ediția a III-a: Conventional / unconventional in onomastics, p. 551 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-543-671-8 |
| Editors: | Oliviu Felecan |
| Publisher: | Editura Mega, Editura Argonaut |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | [Pioneer place names in South Africa from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century: Between “conventionality” and “unconventionality”] In a European country like France, one can identify some notion of “natural geolinguistic conventionality” as regards the use of languages corresponding to certain historical territories. However, a country of immigration tends to experience a case of essential “unconventionality” in this respect, due to the natural dispersion of immigrants of numerous ethnic and linguistic origins in an extremely vast land. Thus, no convention or minimal consensus needs to be observed in the construction of onomastic (i.e., toponymic) creations, in order to coin place names and see them coexist or not. Therefore, one can find within short distance from one another places bearing names of various origins: German, English, Bantu, French, Welsh, Jewish, Irish, Khoisan, Dutch, Occitan, Portuguese and Swedish, sometimes bilingual names, as will be shown. |
| Key words: | “conventionality”, “unconventionality”, pioneer settlements, South Africa |
| Language: | French |
| Links: |  pdf |
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