Cultural inspirations in modern official names of rural streets in the Province of Podkarpacie

In 1989, that was the turning point in political and economic terms, a new, never encountered before category of proper name occurred in villages of the Province of Podkarpacie, namely, official street names. In the set of almost 900 onims, you may spot cultural inspirations that accompanied their occurrence. On the discussed area the cultural influence was of general nature (traditional sources of inspiration: historical figures, biblical and literary ones) and local nature (sources rooted in the rural culture: names of parts of the village and hamlets; forenames and surname of people who belong to the history of the village or the neighbouring region). In total the names inspired with cultural phenomena constitute 43% of all names under analysis. Preponderance of commemorative, especially discretionary, names of local significance over the commemorative names of the domestic nature and domination of onims of historical origin among the erudite names as well as slow opening to being inspired with contemporary mass culture, represent specific characteristic features of the official rural plateonymy in the Province of PodkarpacieUdostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00