We all once wondered what our last name means and what are its origins! The program “Oghje”, which you can find every day at 12:25 pm in ViaStella, researched this topic and invited Doctor of Linguistics Francescu Maria Luneschi to find out more … Clarifications!
Francescu Maria Luneschi, PhD in Linguistics knows the phonology of “Oghje”
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Explained by Francesco Maria Lonchi, PhD in Linguistics at Auji
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dictionary Larousse He tells us that nomenclature is a branch of lexicology that studies the origin of proper names. A distinction is made between anthroponymy, which studies the names of people, and toponymy, which studies place names.
Nothing remains constant, and nothing will be fixed. We will all pass. And the noise of the most famous names will vanish like the sound of an instrument lost in the air and end up merging with the murmur of water and distant wind.
Eusebius SalvertiThe Voice of Names, Martine St-Pierre
It was Eusebe Salverti, the French poet, songwriter and politician, who published one of the first treatises on acoustics in 1826. There is also a great deal of interest in this science in classical French literature. Gustave Flaubert wrote about his work “Emotional Education”: A proper name is a very important thing in the novel, the big thing. »
Jean Bommer (College de France) wrote an article entitled How did Balzac name his characters? It appeared in the books of the International Association for French Studies in 1953. One can read there about the importance of character names in a literary work: And I will not dwell on where Balzac got the surnames (and first names) he needed. He took them as far as he could take them, around him, convinced as he was, in the well-known phrase of his sister Laure, that names “already worn give imaginary beings reality.” “.
This program was born out of a meeting between Anne-Marie Fignon, native of the village of Quasquara and director Daniel Myers, author and director from America and two Corsican academics in philology, Stella Midori and Francesco Maria Lonchi. Their ambition: to tell the small and large story of the surnames in Corsica. Firstly, because Corsica are keen on genealogy. It is common to locate someone geographically and socially by simply name, although spelling out disinformation and disinformation is common. But also because surnames are indicators of changes in our society over the past three centuries.
It is common to locate it geographically from the family name. Nouns are like spatial and temporal beacons. Through them, we can follow the different paths that people have taken.
Anne-Marie Fignon, co-author and co-director of the “Mi chjamu” seriesMorning course
Between anecdotes, family legends and scientific data, the series “Mi chjamu” presents ten episodes that you can discover in May on France 3 Corse ViaStella. The question will be particularly about the history of Jewish, Italian or Sardinian names from Corsica, or the names of sailors, or the names of shepherds and trovatelli … To give you a glimpse into this series, here are two excerpts
The names of the shepherds: The origin of the name Fuatah
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2×52 Documentary series written and directed by Daniel Myers and Anne-Marie Fignon under the scientific supervision of Stella Midori, University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli. Enjam Production
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Ana trovatelli: The abandoned children we had to give a name
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2×52 Documentary series written and directed by Daniel Myers and Anne-Marie Fignon under the scientific supervision of Stella Midori, University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli. Enjam Production
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