Places-palimpsests of Saint Petersburg and their names
The paper deals with the issue of places-palimpsests in modern onomastics. Our goal is to present some onyms (especially temples' names) of Saint-Petersburg as palimpsests of the urban onomasticon.
Katarzyna Janik-Borecka
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Russian urbanonymy and its lexicographic representation: Problems and prospects
The aim of the research is to substantiate the concept of creating a composite dictionary of urbanonyms of the Russian Federation, accumulating information about the most frequent inner-city names, the time of their occurrence, the existing variants of onyms, to identify a range of problems facing this project.
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The ethnic component of memorial urbanonymy: features of representation, cultural and historical potential [PDF]
В статье исследуются мемориальные названия внутригородских линейных объектов в честь представителей других народов (небелорусского); устанавливается соотношение этносов в урбанонимии Белорусского Поозерья; выявляется частотность их использования в ...
Мезенко, А. М.
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Urbanonymic Space of Contemporary Ekaterinburg (Official Names) [PDF]
The paper presents a motivational classification of official urbanonyms (district names, street names, square names, forest and cemetery names) used to name anthropogenic urban objects of contemporary Ekaterinburg.
Yuliya A. Kachalkova
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Shanghai Street Names as Means of Creating City Image: History and Modernity
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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Urbanonymic discourse in the aspect of studying territorial identity (a case study of toponymy of the Ural Federal District cities) [PDF]
The article is devoted to the research of toponymic representation of territorial identity in northern cities of the Ural Federal District – Uray, Khanty-Mansyisk, Novy Urengoy, Salekhard. The authors turn to the possibilities of a dicursive approach and
Marina V. Golomidova +1 more
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On history of a provincial town’s urbanonymy: names of saltworks of old-time Nerekhta
This research is devoted to the study of historical toponyms of the town of Nerekhta, Kostroma Region. The onyms chosen for analysis are from the town’s medieval period associated with the territory’s oldest trade – salt production and saltworks – now ...
T. V. Gorlova
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Toponymy in a Relocated City: the City of Most, Czech Republic [PDF]
This article addresses the toponymy of the North Bohemian city of Most, Czech Republic, and its development during the second half of the 20th century.
Jaroslav David
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The following paper is dedicated to the analysis of 41 proper names (including 18 historical names) of structures in Cracow used for crossing water and terrain, identified architecturally as bridges, footbridges, trestle bridges and flyovers. These names
Krystyna Kowalik
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Onomastic Space, or What, How and Why We Name [Review of: Shmeleva, T. V. (2013). Onomastics. A Handbook. Slavyansk-na-Kubani: KubGU Press] [PDF]
Giving a high appraisal to the handbook by T. V. Shmeleva, the reviewer considers it a fullfledged monograph covering almost all the branches of onomastics including those which have not attracted much attention from scholars until recently.
Elena V. Dushechkina
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