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Sequencing toponymic change: A quantitative longitudinal analysis of street renaming in Sibiu, Romania.
2021
Recent scholarship in critical toponymy studies has refashioned the understanding of street names from innocent labels to nominal loci of historical memory and vectors of collective identity that are embroiled with power relations. Urban nomenclatures consist of more than mere linguistic signposts deployed onto space to facilitate navigation. Street names are also powerful signposts that indicate the political regime and its socio-cultural values. Drawing on these theoretical insights, this paper is focused on Sibiu (Romania) and explore the city’s shifting namescape in a longitudinal perspective spanning one century and a half of modern history (1875–2020). The analysis is based on a compl…
Analyse toponymique de l’Horta de Valence (Espagne). Intégration des approches classique et critique pour la reconstruction et la valorisation de son…
2018
La comarca de l’Horta de València, la més poblada del País Valencià, rep aquest nom perquè fins a principis del segle XX la seua economia es basava en la seua riquíssima horta (‘terra de regadiu’). A partir de l’estudi dels topònims dels seus nuclis urbans (on l’horta ha estat eradicada) es reconstitueix virtualment el paisatge cultural hortícola perdut en les últimes dècades per a donar a conèixer a la ciutadania i així conscienciar-la del valor patrimonial d’aquest paisatge cultural de l’aigua desaparegut, i també per a revalorar el que sobreviu d’horta encara. Es porta a terme una anàlisi toponímica dels nuclis habitats de la comarca: d’una banda, seguint la metodologia clàssica de recol…
Interpreting protohistoric societies through place names of landscape features: a case study in València, Spain
2021
Protohistoric place names, created before written history and related to extinct languages, are analysed in this article. Our case study deals with place names of current towns (over 20,000 inhabit...
Mapping the political toponymy of educational namescapes: A quantitative analysis of Romanian school names
2019
Abstract This study sets out to map the political toponymy of Romanian schooling network. Starting from the theoretical premise that national memory is toponymically inscribed, inter alia, on a series of public organizations that form an institutional namescape, the paper reads the Romanian historical memory through the looking glass of school names. Exhaustive data was collected for the Romanian secondary schools bearing a nominal identity (N = 2850). Data were analyzed in terms of the ethnic and gender distribution, the social (occupational), spatial, and historical structures of the Romanian educational namescape. Our findings reveal that the political toponymy of the Romanian schooling …
El papel de la Geografía en el análisis del contenido semántico de los topónimos. El caso de Alicante
2018
La relación entre Geografía y Toponimia es incuestionable, ya que los topónimos designan lugares de la superficie terrestre, y la Geografía es la ciencia que estudia los fenómenos que suceden sobre dichos lugares. Además, los nombres de lugar son una herramienta de primer orden para la reconstitución de un paisaje geográfico desaparecido. La Geografía, la Historia y la Lingüística son las tres principales disciplinas auxiliares de la ciencia toponímica. Se lleva a cabo un análisis toponímico de un caso paradigmático al respecto: Alacant/Alicante. Por un lado repasamos su larga y convulsa historia antigua, que implicó el abandono del poblado romano y su traslado -junto con su topónimo- al so…
Lat. rég. *solat(i)cu : un partenaire de lunaticus conservé dans la toponymie de la Gaule méridionale
2015
Le type Soulage est présent à une soixantaine d’exemplaires, tous dépourvus de l’article et tous situés dans le domaine linguistique occitan ou sur ses abords (première attestation en 938). Nous proposons de faire remonter cette série toponymique à un adjectif substantivé *sol?t(i)cu “(lieu) exposé au soleil”, formé en latin régional parallèlement à l?n?ticus. Mots clés: toponymie; occitan; latin régional; Soulage; *sol?t(i)cu. The type Soulage is present in sixty copies, all of them without the article and located within the linguistic domain of Occitan or its surroundings (first attested in 938). We attempt to trace back this toponymic series in an adjective with a nominal function *solat…
Unu idrònimu sardu
2015
Subra a sas orìgines de su topònimu Palau sos pàrreres de sos linguistas non sun cuncordes ma tottus creen chi siat una paraula foristera. Calicunu pensat chi siat essida a pizu a sos tempos de su domìniu catalanu-ispagnolu mentres àtteros sun cumbintos chi siat unu prèstidu cadalanu ebbia e bi est finas chie creet chi si trattet de unu ligurismu. S’artìculu mustrat chi s’esàmene de sa toponimia istòrica, màssimu de sos idrònimos, nos indittat intamen chi si trattat de unu topònimu chi s’est formadu comente isviluppu derettu de una paraula latina. Paraulas crae: pàrreres; toponimia istòrica; idrònimos; isviluppu locale On the origins of the name Palau scholars have different opinions but ev…
Street Names through Sociological Lenses. Part I: Functionalism and Conflict Theory
2020
Abstract Street names are mundane spatial markers that besides providing a sense of orientation inscribe onto the landscape the ideological ethos and political symbols of hegemonic discourses. This review article takes stock of the existing scholarship done on the politics of street naming practices in human (political, cultural, and social) geography and rethinks these insights from sociological perspectives. Drawing on Randall Collins’ taxonomy of sociological theory, the paper interprets urban street nomenclatures along functionalist, conflictualist, constructionist, and utilitarian lines. The analysis is delivered in two installments: Part I addresses urban nomenclatures from functional…
Patrimonio toponomastico di Sicilia. Una raccolta capillare per la toponimia orale e la sua cartografazione digitale
2022
Il progetto onomastico qui presentato rientra nel più ampio progetto dell’Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia. L’obiettivo è di documentare capillarmente l’intero patrimonio toponimico nella forma popolare (che affianca quella documentata e cartografata). La ricerca che si propone, di straordinaria ampiezza, costituirà una fondamentale chiave di lettura della storia linguistica della Sicilia e della sua complessa stratificazione. I primi sondaggi confermano che il patrimonio toponimico orale è a grave rischio di scomparsa. La possibilità di realizzare un portale interrogabile e interattivo è una opportunità di riconsegna al territorio non passiva e inerte, ma può sollecitare ulteriori attivit…
Political patterning of urban namescapes and post-socialist toponymic change: A quantitative analysis of three Romanian cities
2020
Abstract Critical scholars of place-name studies have compellingly demonstrated that significant transformations in a society's namescape follow suit major power shifts and regime changes. However, despite the wealth of particular case studies existing in the literature, scarce efforts have been made to examine street name changes in a comparative framework using statistical modeling techniques of multivariate analysis. This paper aims to overcome these shortcomings by developing a comparative approach to analyzing post-socialist street-naming transformations in three Romanian cities from Transylvania (Brașov, Cluj-Napoca, and Sibiu). Based on comprehensive data collected from multiple sour…