Traversing Central Prague from Jan Palach Square to Ukrainian Heroes’ Street: The Symbolic Function of Place Names in a Linguistic Landscape

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21857/y7v64tv8gy" target="_blank" >10.21857/y7v64tv8gy</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Traversing Central Prague from Jan Palach Square to Ukrainian Heroes’ Street: The Symbolic Function of Place Names in a Linguistic Landscape

Original language description

This paper investigates the phenomenon of renaming public spaces so common in urban history since the second half of the 19th century. The research focuses on instances of spontaneous renaming initiated by the general public rather than those brought about by the local self-government. A number of notable examples of Czech as well as Czechoslovak urbanonyms are provided, covering the period starting from the Second World War until the present. Special emphasis is put on the spontaneous origin of the urbanonym náměstí Jana Palacha (Jan Palach Square) commemorating the student who set himself on fire and burned himself to death in protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The conclusion addresses, among other things, the topical issue of renaming a range of public spaces in response to the Russian military aggression against Ukraine. In Prague, Ukrajinských hrdinů (Ukrainian Heroes’ [Street]) and Skakunův most (Skakun Bridge) are among the commemorative place names to have appeared recently.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Folia onomastica Croatica

ISSN

1330-0695

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

prosinec

Country of publishing house

HR - CROATIA

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

145-156

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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