Pokrajinska imena kot dejavnik identitete

This volume focuses on the names of Slovenian regions and how they are connected with regional identity. The introduction defines the basic terms and provides an overview of Slovenian research on geographical names. The second part chronologically outlines the sources of the names of regions, starting with archival material. This is followed by an overview of modern maps and registers by the Slovenian Surveying and Mapping Authority (GURS), and, finally, geographical regionalizations are presented as a source of the names of regions. The third part presents the results of collecting the names of regions as part of a survey. The findings show the following: the names of regions reflect regional identity and represent an important factor in the residents’ minds, they are not hierarchically structured, the majority are deeply rooted among people, some are disappearing, and the share of newly established names is negligible. In people’s minds, the names of regions have an unclearly defined denotation or scope and, like other linguistic elements, change over time.

Monografija se osredinja na imena slovenskih pokrajin in njihovo povezavo s pokrajinsko identiteto. V uvodnem delu opredelimo temeljne pojme in podamo pregled obravnave zemljepisnih imen pri nas. V drugem delu kronološko pretresemo vire pokrajinskih imen, začenši z arhivskim gradivom. Sledi pregled novejših zemljevidov ter registrov Geodetske uprave Republike Slovenije (GURS). Na koncu so kot vir pokrajinskih imen predstavljene geografske regionalizacije. V tretjem delu so predstavljeni rezultati zbiranja pokrajinskih imen s pomočjo anketiranja. Med sklepnimi ugotovitvami lahko izpostavimo, da pokrajinska imena zrcalijo pokrajinsko identiteto in so pomemben dejavnik v zavesti njihovih prebivalcev, da niso hierarhično razporejena, pa tudi, da jih je večina trdo zakoreninjenih, da nekatera izginjajo in da je delež na novo uveljavljenih zanemarljiv. V zavesti ljudi imajo pokrajinska imena nejasno definiran denotat oziroma obseg in se, tako kot ostale jezikovne prvine, sčasoma spreminjajo.