The Writing of Geographical Names: Some Dilemmas in Croatian Lexicographic and Cartographic Works

Authors

  • Ivana Crljenko The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography

Keywords:

geographical names, toponyms, exonyms, endonyms, encyclopaedias, atlases, lexicography

Abstract

Geographical names or toponyms are »personal« names of natural and social geographical objects in space. They are the subject of research of many sciences and scientific disciplines, primarily toponomastics, geography, history and cartography, and their wider use is provided by numerous lexicographic and cartographic editions. The objective of this article is to indicate certain issues which occur in the writing of toponyms of foreign geographical objects in lexicons, encyclopaedias and atlases of the Croatian lexicographic editions. This is principally related to the issues of mutual irregularity and inconsistency resulting from the lack of the single criteria for writing the names of foreign geographical objects. The purpose of this work is to make a contribution to the study of geographical names, to underline the need to systematize the way in which they are written, and to emphasise the responsibility which lexicographers have in the process of standardization and preservation of geographical names.

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Published

2013-11-15

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2008)

Section

Lexicography between Science and Profession

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