The role of the concorded renaming in the formation of the oikonymy in the Kaliningrad Region
The article examines the ways in which the original East Prussian and new Soviet oikonyms were concorded during the post-war renaming of some settlements in the Kaliningrad region. A comparative phonetic and semantic analysis of the respective names revealed that the same thematic correlation (with a predominance of references to the flora, fauna and water bodies of the area) ...
The space of metaphor in the space of the created locus (based on Hrant Matevosyan’s prose)
... the Armenian capital throughout the 20
th
and 21
st
centuries there was a deliberate displacement of some signs by others — from the demolition of religious and Soviet architectural objects to toponymic transformations. Analyzing examples of street renaming, the authors reveal how
ideological strategies are manifested both in state
initiatives and in local commercial names. Particular attention is paid to
protest movements (from 1988 to 2022), in which the street acts as a space for
the articulation ...
