Toponymy Can Be Alive

Authors

  • Mikhail Rozhansky

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.46.957

Published

2015-12-12

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Short articles

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Keywords:

toponymy, city space, Irkutsk, historical memory, pragmatics

Abstract

The author thinks that any discussion on the historical restoration of toponyms in Irkutsk is unpromising and offers to treat toponyms as a resource for vitalizing the city space. This could be a priority approach to the problems of city toponymy.

 

Author Biography

  • Mikhail Rozhansky

    Ph.D. in Philosophy, scientific director of the Center for Independent Social Research (Irkutsk)