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Streetonomics: Quantifying culture using street names. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Quantifying a society's value system is important because it suggests what people deeply care about-it reflects who they actually are and, more importantly, who they will like to be.
Melanie Bancilhon +4 more
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Nomenclature of Chinese Street Food Names in Malaysia: A Scalar Analysis
SAGE Open, 2023 This study examines how the nomenclature of street food names includes trans-local, trans-regional, and trans-national scales in local language resources. The study adopts a qualitative case study on street food names in Malaysia.
Hongxiang Zhu +2 more
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Is Culture Reflected in Transliteration? Transliteration of Chinese Street Food Names in Malaysia
SAGE OpenStreet foods in Malaysia, which are enjoyed by a variety of ethnic groups, provide insights into the country’s sociocultural reality. However, relatively few studies have explored the street food names from a translation perspective.
Hongxiang Zhu, Lay Hoon Ang
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Street Names of Shanghai and Ekaterinburg: A Comparative Study [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2020 The paper presents the findings of a comparative study of street names (hodonyms) in Shanghai and Ekaterinburg in terms of their motivation and historical background.
Mo Li, Ekaterina S. Ryabtseva
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Névtani Értesítő, 2021 The street names of Cluj/Kolozsvár and Braşov/Brassó in the last 150 years The street names in the Transylvanian towns remained unchanged from their first naming until the mid 19th century.
ZSOMBOR BARTOS-ELEKES
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Street Names through Sociological Lenses. Part II: Constructionism and Utilitarianism
Social Change Review, 2021 As toponymic means of inscribing urban space, street names have been addressed mainly by human geographers, who have articulated the field of critical place-name studies.
Rusu Mihai Stelian
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Vrouwen in Brusselse straatnamen. Topografie van een minorisering
Brussels Studies, 2021 The article proposes an examination of odonyms in Brussels, i.e. the names of its streets, through the prism of gender. After a systematic survey of street names and the characteristics of the female figures honoured – which reveals a glaring imbalance ...
Nouria Ouali +7 more
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Women in Brussels street names. Topography of a minoritisation
Brussels Studies, 2021 The article proposes an examination of odonyms in Brussels, i.e. the names of its streets, through the prism of gender. After a systematic survey of street names and the characteristics of the female figures honoured – which reveals a glaring imbalance ...
Nouria Ouali +7 more
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Street Name Data as a Reflection of Migration and Settlement History
Urban Science, 2020 Street names (odonyms) play an important role not only as descriptors of geographic locations but also due to their sociological and political connotations and commemorative character.
Sarah J. Berkemer, Peter F. Stadler
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What is the gender of a city? Odonyms and spatial genderization: An example of the City of Novi Sad [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2020 Observing the city as a system of signs - the names of streets, monuments, architectural elements and entities through which the state and other institutions of power reflect the desired social narratives, including gendered reading of the ...
Jakovljević-Šević Tijana
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