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A Case Study of De-Russification of Ukrainian Hodonyms

open access: yesNames, 2023
The 2022 outbreak of the Russian full-scale war against Ukraine has led to a reassessment of memory politics in Ukraine. The erasure of communist symbols or “decommunization” has evolved into a decolonization process of de-Russificationin in which ...
Oleksiy Gnatiuk, Anatoliy Melnychuk
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Specificity of Nominating the Geographical Objects: The Reflection of National and Regional Components

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2023
The political, economic, social and cultural changes that occur in the society affect the processes of nominating urban objects, which represent a fundamental part of toponymic policy.
Dmitriy Yu. Ilyin, Elena G. Sidorova
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Linguistic Coding in Hodonymic Space of Volgograd and Sevastopol

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2023
The article is devoted to the description of the linguistic codes of two sister cities – Volgograd and Sevastopol. The coinciding names of linear objects situated in two cities constitute the object of the study.
Natalia S. Antonenko
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The Ulica Nikite Tolstoja hodonym on the city map of Vršac (Serbia)

open access: yesСлавянский мир в третьем тысячелетии, 2023
This paper is devoted to the renaming of Ljubljanska street in the city of Vršac (Serbia) to commemorate Nikita Tolstoy on May 22, 2005. The paper’s author, who was then working as a Humanities Program assistant at the Russian Center of Science and ...
Marina Obizhaeva
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Manifestations of Regional Identity in Contemporary Russian Urbanonymy

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2020
The paper develops approaches to reveal manifestations of regional identity in modern urbanonymic systems based on the data of three Russian cities: Ekaterinburg, Rybinsk, and Yaroslavl, and to analyse them from the onomasiological perspective.
Roman V. Razumov, Sergey O. Goryaev
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Zur Motivierung von Hodonymen in der Stadt Rzeszów (Reichshof) im Zweiten Weltkrieg

open access: yesColloquia Germanica Stetinensia, 2020
Street names not only have a topographical-spatial orientation function, but also reflect history and are a political and cultural instrument. At the time of the National Socialist dictatorship street and place names were changed in Germany.
Andrzej Feret
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Gender and the Urban Linguistic Landscape

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This article examines the issue of gender (im)balance in street and roundabout names in Poland’s three largest cities: Warsaw, Kraków, and Łódź.
Krzysztof Górny, Ada Górna
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“Iron Ukrainization”

open access: yesNames
This article examines the historical names of railways in Ukraine by employing cultural-geographic and critical approaches. More specifically, this research describes semantic categories of railway names in Ukraine and highlights how railway names are ...
Oleksiy Gnatiuk
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Names of Hutong in Kaifeng

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The common narrow lane in ancient cities of North China, the hutong, has long been of interest to scholars. However, the limited onomastic research on hutong names is mostly confined to Beijing, leaving the toponymic landscape of other well-known ...
Shuxia Yang   +4 more
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