Metodologie w onomastyce a kultura

Abstract

The relationship between names and culture is multidimensional, and it also leaves a distinct mark on the practice of name research. The paper will present onomastic methods in the context of reveal-ing the relationship between names and culture. Culture in its broadest sense is present in almost all onomastics research, but some of these methods more consciously expose it in such a way that it becomes methodologically dominant. The emphasis will be placed on these methodologies, their tools, ways of describing names, and results of the research in the form of conclusions of a culture-wide character. The cultural categories of “name-ness” will be highlighted as crucial for the onymic categorization of reality, and therefore postulated as crucial for the cultural research of names.