Censorship and Hunger: The Role of Names

This paper is devoted to the analysis the of personal names contained in Die Umschreibungen des Begriffes „Hunger“ im Italienischen: stilistisch-onomasiologische Studie auf Grund von unveröffentlichtem Zensurmaterial. This text was published in 1920 by Leo Spitzer, an Austrian romance philologist w...

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description This paper is devoted to the analysis the of personal names contained in Die Umschreibungen des Begriffes „Hunger“ im Italienischen: stilistisch-onomasiologische Studie auf Grund von unveröffentlichtem Zensurmaterial. This text was published in 1920 by Leo Spitzer, an Austrian romance philologist who worked, during the First World War, as a censor at the Central Office of the Postal Censorship of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In his account, Spitzer reports the different linguistic strategies that Italian prisoners in Austria used in their letters to express the concept of hunger to their relatives in Italy. Among the many linguistic substitutes, a particular place is occupied by the personal names that prisoners used to name hunger. In this article I describe the different types of names that Italian prisoners used as euphemisms for the concepts of hunger and fasting in their letters. I will also show that these anthroponyms are connected to the aforementioned concepts by means of metaphorical or metonymic shifts or thanks to the encyclopedic knowledge of the soldiers. After a brief introduction to Spitzer’s work and to the types of euphemisms (linguistic or extra-linguistic), the analysis focuses on a few types of names: names that recall the physical conditions of prisoners, names related to music, names of saints and names of animals.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1599972025-05-20T08:31:17Z Censorship and Hunger: The Role of Names Saracco, Caterina euphemistic names war and hunger metaphor and metonymy Italian culture thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics This paper is devoted to the analysis the of personal names contained in Die Umschreibungen des Begriffes „Hunger“ im Italienischen: stilistisch-onomasiologische Studie auf Grund von unveröffentlichtem Zensurmaterial. This text was published in 1920 by Leo Spitzer, an Austrian romance philologist who worked, during the First World War, as a censor at the Central Office of the Postal Censorship of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In his account, Spitzer reports the different linguistic strategies that Italian prisoners in Austria used in their letters to express the concept of hunger to their relatives in Italy. Among the many linguistic substitutes, a particular place is occupied by the personal names that prisoners used to name hunger. In this article I describe the different types of names that Italian prisoners used as euphemisms for the concepts of hunger and fasting in their letters. I will also show that these anthroponyms are connected to the aforementioned concepts by means of metaphorical or metonymic shifts or thanks to the encyclopedic knowledge of the soldiers. After a brief introduction to Spitzer’s work and to the types of euphemisms (linguistic or extra-linguistic), the analysis focuses on a few types of names: names that recall the physical conditions of prisoners, names related to music, names of saints and names of animals. 2025-05-20T08:31:14Z 2025-05-20T08:31:14Z 2023-12-18 chapter 9788323374787 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159997 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://wuj.pl/en/book/onomastics-in-interaction-with-other-branches-of-science-volume-3 https://wuj.pl/censorship-and-hunger-the-role-of-names Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Onomastics in Interaction With Other Branches of Science. Volume 3. General and Applied Onomastics. Literary Onomastics. Chrematonomastics. Reports 10.4467/K7478.47/22.23.17745 10.4467/K7478.47/22.23.17745 b56389e6-bd6e-43b9-abc7-9af91c5afc6b c399a3f7-2b80-46ec-b511-77038f45ea82 9788323374787 395-412 open access
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