Živočichové a rostliny v názvech českých hraných filmů

Animals and plants in the names of Czech films

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This article deals with the designations of animals and plants in the titles of Czech and Czechoslovak films from the years 1898‒2010. This topic will also be part of the author’s forthcoming dissertation dealing with names of Czech films. There appeared 228 films which names includes the term of the lexical world of animals and plants in a total amount of 2,293 movie titles. There prevails mammals (and most of them dog and cat), as regards the plants, most often are flowers and herbs. In terms of form there were mostly nouns, adjectival forms were rare. There also appeared several zoonyms besides appellatives. In view of the importance of collected names it can be aside the original meanings of the designations of animals, names with anthroponymic function, no anthroponymic metaphorical designations of persons and group nicknames.