Semiotic landscapes: Exploring the sociopolitical dimensions of alternative names
| dc.contributor.author | Javorčíková, Jana | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-11T11:33:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-06-11T11:33:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description | In: The book of abstracts from the 16th World Congress of Semiotics, "Signs and Realities". 1. vyd. Varšava : Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2024. ISBN 978-83-973931-0-3. Pp. 80-81. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study presented herewith is based on three years of research con- ducted as part of a national grant scheme entitled “Cultural Memory of European Cities” (2012–2023). The authors build upon the research of selected practitioners of science, focusing on social semiotics and socio-onomastics. Specifically, they analyze the social and political contexts of alternative regional names (such as so- briquets, nicknames, aliases, abbreviations, and selected mottos) for 100 Euro- pean destinations, which reveal the cultural memory of the city or region and com- municate various alternative semiotic meanings, including real or projected emo- tions, attitudes, and statuses. Among these are adopted identities of a more sig- nificant counterpart (e.g., Little Italy, Venice of the North), megalomania (e.g., New Jerusalem), inferiority complexes related to certain imperfections (e.g., The City that is never ready), and many others. On the other hand, the absence of al- ternative name(s) may carry an important semiotic message of the so-called ‘non- identity.’ As such it may indicate the ‘silenced’ and ‘suppressed identity’ of loca- tions with ‘unspeakable’ histories, for example, Auschwitz and Waterloo, which are beyond easily graspable linguistic notions. The study presented herewith will examine the diverse ways in which informal regional names and naming shape, and are shaped by, words and worlds-in-the-making, and how they reflect and affect the identity or identities of the respective region. Research results will help to define a taxonomy of various semiotic approaches to expressing diverse atti- tudes towards collective identities for the preservation of collective memory, as well as region branding. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | KEGA 008UMB-4/2022 Univerzitné vzdelávanie ako brána k mysleniu: integrácia čitateľských, akademických a kritických zručností ako predpoklad intelektuálneho kapitálu univerzít a internacionalizácie výučby VEGA 1/0538/21 Kultúrna pamäť európskych veľkomiest | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-83-973931-0-3 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repo.umb.sk/handle/123456789/570 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Uniwersytet Warszawski : Varšava | |
| dc.rights | © vydavateľ | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.subject | kultúrna pamäť | |
| dc.subject | cultural memory | |
| dc.subject | prezývky | |
| dc.subject | nicknames | |
| dc.subject | alternatívne mená | |
| dc.subject | alternative names | |
| dc.subject | frazeológia | |
| dc.subject | phraseology | |
| dc.subject | idiómy | |
| dc.subject | idioms | |
| dc.title | Semiotic landscapes: Exploring the sociopolitical dimensions of alternative names | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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