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Shanghai Street Names as Means of Creating City Image: History and Modernity

Научный диалог, 2018
This article focuses on street names of Shanghai. Street names are considered in linguo-cultural aspect (as a means of representation of the history of the city and its cultural characteristics), as well as in the key of image-making (as a way of ...
E. S. Kogan, Mo. Li
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Les femmes dans le nom des rues bruxelloises. Topographie d’une minorisation

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, Pierre Lannoy, Virginie Desamoury, Sandrine Guilleaume, Fanny Mayné, Sophie Merville, Charlotte Odier, Adèle Thébaux   +7 more
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Mátyásföld utcanevei (1889–2004)

Névtani Értesítő, 2006
Street names of Mátyásföld (1889–2004)   This paper examines the changes of historical street names of Mátyásföld (a part of the capital, Budapest from 1950) in chronological order by setting up three periods. Major concern is given to the aims of
Orsolya Tóth
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Trans-Atlantic Street Names

Names, 1999
The British and American national varieties of the English Language differ in a multitude of ways: orthographic, phonological, syntactic, lexical, and onomastic.
John Algeo
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Deutsch-polnische Konfigurationen in den Straßennamen von Grünberg – Zielona Góra [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław
The subject of the analysis in this article is changes in the naming of streets in Grünberg, now Zielona Góra. This city was part of Germany for a long time and was assigned to Poland after World War II.
Joanna Dubiec-Stach
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Transformations of place, memory and identity through urban place names in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2022
The paper looks at the renaming of streets as a significant aspect of post-socialist change using an example of the city of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. It discusses politics, processes and practices of (de-re)commemoration in street names, which reflect ...
Alexandra Bitušíková
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“Stone” Streets of Ekaterinburg

Вопросы ономастики, 2022
The paper studies a group of Ekaterinburg street names associated with “stone craft”. These would include the names directly motivated by mineralogical vocabulary (Ametistovaya St., Rodonitovaya St.) or indirectly conveying the “stone” naming motif ...
Yulia A. Krivoshchapova, Sergey O. Goryaev   +1 more
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Street names in Kaunas in 1918–1940

, 2020
Straipsnyje nagrinėjamas gatvėvardžių funkcionavimas Kauno mieste 1918–1940 m. Atskleidžiamos gatvių pavadinimų kaitos aplinkybės, aptariama mieste galiojusi gatvėvardžių rašymo gatvių pavadinimų lentelėse tvarka, pristatomos pagrindinės gatvių ...
Balkus, Mindaugas
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"Les Pays-Bas tropicaux"

Géographie et Cultures, 2007
This paper analyzes 736 street names in 46 neighbourhoods in Dutch municipalities that refer to the erstwhile colony of the Dutch Indies. Such names have been in use since 1870.
Herman Van Der Wusten, Sjoerd De Vos, Rinus Deurloo   +2 more
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Gender aspects of public urban space: Analysis of the names of Belgrade streets [PDF]

Sociologija, 2014
The street city network and the street names represent structural public symbolic system which is characterized by readability. This readability gives identity; the city is clearly divided in significant and less significant zones used for ...
Sekulić Nada
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